"Suffering and death are facts of life; focusing only on the “bright and shiny” is superficial and inauthentic. “We try to suppress the thought of death, or escape it, or run away from it because we think that’s where we’ll find happiness,” she said. “But it’s actually in facing the darkest realities of life that we find light in them.”"
This is one of the many very quotable passages from a recent article in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/us/memento-mori-nun.html?campaign_id=61&emc=edit_ts_20210514&instance_id=30859&nl=the-great-read®i_id=66760862&segment_id=58118&te=1&user_id=d328f2d29afde130ec740d89c9423d30
Many thanks to Jill Nelson for flagging this beautiful article for me! If you're out of scrolling time today and want to read the article at a later point in time - here is my main takeaway:
You are going to die - what are you going to do today to ensure you're actually living now?
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