“By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.” WorldLifeLastsTimeOur LivesRecognitionSignificanceIntensityContemplatingLast TimeEnjoy LifeAbsentLife Is Too ShortImpermanenceAppreciate LifeLife Well LivedLife Is Fragile Author:William Braxton Irvine
“Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.” WayLifeLife IsOrderNaturalLinesGenerationsParticularDemandSpeciesCurrentsRecognitionEvolveBiologyAncestorHomo SapiensDescendantsFluxNatural Order Author:Sam Harris