This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
What would you do differently with your time, today, if you knew in your bones that salvation was never coming – that your standards had been unreachable all along, and that you’ll therefore never manage to make time for all you hoped you might?
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
if we are convinced by this idea that without a future for humanity we would lose interest in a wide range of our activities and confidence in what we value (much like in the immortality case), then we arrive at a startling conclusion. It is not merely enough that we have in place the temporal finitude provided by our own death to ensure our lives
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
The only real question about all this finitude is whether we’re willing to confront it or not. And this, for Heidegger, is the central challenge of human existence: since finitude defines our lives, he argues that living a truly authentic life—becoming fully human—means facing up to that fact. We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can, ... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
and open ourselves to the possibility of change, we in no way deny or run away from the reality of our situation. In fact we do exactly the opposite; we embrace the emptiness. It is precisely our failure to inhabit our life which has rendered it dull and meaningless. So while we defy the meaninglessness of our life, the act of defiance consists in
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