“You are scared of dying-and tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”

Seneca

What most people think about on a daily basis isn’t “I hope this happens to me”. It’s the anxiety of “I hope this doesn’t happen to me”.

It could be death. It could be some kind of loss. A notion of looming failure. It could even be having to talk to someone we don’t want to. Oftentimes it doesn’t feel like we are working for something. But to avoid something else.

Living a life where you’re trying to avoid things isn’t really that much living. Because life is an opening. Death is closing. So closing yourself off to experiences in life is like a partial death in it of itself.

There’s nothing we need to do other than to stop closing. Because life is a naturally opening process. It’s an event we’re allowed to take part in to experience things. And you will experience the full range of life, if you’re willing to open up, rather than finding things to close off to.