10.07.2011

"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 (1955-2011)
Posted by at 9:43 PM

2 comments:

the faithful city said...

Powerful insight!! The monastic traditions have taught this for centuries, of course. Their daily practice of 'keeping death before our eyes' allowed them to give all in their search for the ultimate.

Many of us are bound though. Like Lazarus, some of us need unbinding, a loosening of what holds us down and not fully free.

A year or so ago, I wrote a song. A first for me!! Actually I started singing a song and then wrote it down. I was in touch with an amazing sense of freedom. Not destined to be a Dylan classic or anything like that, the opening line is: "There's a freedom I'm feeling now. There's a freedom I'm feeling now. My heart is free, my soul knows liberty, there's a freedom I'm feeling now.'

I am blushing a little sharing that but there we are. It came out of the blue and complete with a couple of verses and a chorus. It came at the completion of a ton of things in my life and at the threshold of a door to a more authentic future.

We need help to become free but the final act of freedom is from within oneself.

4:20 AM
s + k = z said...

Gotta love steve.

11:45 PM

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