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meaning with Dr. James Hollis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWC8ZFVxGo

Death, Ego, Mortality and Meaning

life means something because our choices are finite

honestly

the chief thing I worry about as I approach my own mortality is I don't want my wife to be alone, I care for her and there are areas where she needs my help

and to be there for her for as long as I can

I don't want to suffer obviously

I'm still curious as a human being

I'm heavily invested in the adventure of life

but I'm less attached to it

it's the gellasenheit (having let go)

solution of fear of death is accepting, letting go of the fantasy of the ego

what it usually produces is depression/torpor or frenetic activity

its mortality that makes this life mean something, we're here a short time

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