Embracing My Own Mortality

     "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. 
     Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. 
     You are already naked. 
     There is no reason not to follow your heart."  

       Steve Jobs (Feb 24, 1955 – Oct 5, 2011) co-founder, chairman, & CEO of Apple Inc.

 

Erez Marom   www.dpreview.com

Growing Up is Embarrassing!

     "Growing humility" is a serious understatement! Long-term meditation practice is best described in the words of Shunryu Suzuki Sensei: "one embarrassment after another!"
     As our protective defenses, pretenses & avoidances are lowered & shed, we perceive ourselves with increasing clarity - WOW, what a SURPRISE! We're ORDINARY MORTAL SLOBS! No wonder a lot of us refuse to grow up!!!!

Microsurgeon   www.dpreview.com