1/ We long most for that which we realize (often too late) we gave least to existence. It was only yesterday that we had the time and the opportunity, yet we took it for granted and missed it, and now the moment is gone, dissolved like a dream.
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7/ The more one lives the more one longs it seems, and the reverse is true also. Any deep surrender to the full experience is fatal to the mind and intoxicating to the heart. The former resists, the latter insists, leaving us richer in memory and meaning.
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8/ And so if one truly longs, it is not for having things, but for creating them, not for circumstances but for an elevated communion with existence, not for getting the love one deserve but for giving the love one is potentially capable of.
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9/ The full expression of this longing only becomes real when it is transmuted into a deep longing for the moment, where impermanence is fully realized and there is nothing left to lose or gain—"only to live out.. always merry and bright", as Henry Miller wrote.
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