Worthy of Our Precious Time & Energy?

David Foster Wallace paraphrased the Christian bible: "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." If we have a period of time in our lives when we feel young, healthy & "the living is easy", then we really are "living the dream." And that really is a dream. We sometimes feel that way - for brief periods - even when our life is far from easy. Many of us appear to have a capacity for spontaneous, unconditional joy. One wonderful example:

“Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1921-1881] lived in a hopeless time and place, a world of pogroms, starvation, filth, and syphilis. His life was plagued by epilepsy, mental problems, and poverty. Yet he left this message: ‘Love all of God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light! Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. And once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly, more and more every day. And you will at last come to love the whole world with an abiding, universal love.” Pipher M. “Writing to change the world.” Riverhead Books, NY, 2006.

Most of us, however, sense significant problems in our own and others' lives, yet choose to ignore these, and choose to pretend that life is grand - in effect, stick our heads in the sand. But truth is not finished with us!

Fortunately, aging makes us realize that our lifetime is rapidly running out - we can no longer pretend that we have "all the time in the world" to learn & experience what is true, what is actually worthwhile. We finally start to realize that our time & energy are finite, rapidly diminishing, & thus incredibly precious! The truth & how to embody it becomes increasingly urgent. And we've just started to earnestly examine what is true & worthwhile in our lives - to actively lean into truth, as our top priority: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2013/04/fear-avoidance-ineffective-existential.html