This is a quote from the newspaper from Dr. Oliver Sacks who recently revealed that he has only months to live due to liver cancer. This knowledge, he reports, has enabled him to see his own life "as if from a a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of a connection of all its parts." He states he is grateful to have loved and been loved. "Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." He said nothing about how much money he made or how many things he had acquired.
Last night my son-in-law was ill and passed out. He hit his head but was not injured seriously. It takes only an instant to change a life simply or drastically. In the news there has been many deaths from earthquakes, storms, and other natural calamities. We never know when it is our time to die. It is so important to live each day with meaningful, loving and caring interactions with our families, friends, neighbors, countries, environment, animals and life itself. By living with faith, integrity, love and kindness, we have a wonderful landscape of our life to behold as we face death. We are proud of who we are and what we have accomplished in our life as we positively interacted with our world and other life travelers. Life is a privilege and it is important that we use every moment to remember why we are here and find what we have to offer to God and others.
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