“What sets Homo sapiens apart from other living beings—and I believe, gives us a spark of the divine—is not the ability to give answers to increasingly complicated problems…it is the willingness and capacity to wonder and inquire about things large and small that are the essence of our uniquely human consciousness.”—Arthur C. Brooks, The Meaning of Your Life
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“What is an unlinkable life?” he asked. “I thought there would be more to it—a caption, or words, or thought that explained—but there wasn’t, only that…”
She smiled, entertained and sharing grace to the question and his wondering.
“Maybe that’s the answer,” she replied. “Maybe there isn’t any need for more: no words, no answer, no explanation, nor defining so that others understand.
It’s a life lived for YOU and the ones you live it with—wholly present in time and the moments we are gifted.
It doesn’t need defined, overshared or shown to others.
It’s yours…It’s ours…and that’s all it needs to be.”
