We also need to contribute to our fellow beings if we wish to be truly alive. We are most alive when we engage societally - by acting for and revering human life, committing to our life-purpose and meaningful work, interacting with those we help, transforming politics, and acting globally and for future generations - as an expression of the deep connection to life that comes from life-affirming death awareness.
1. Action On Behalf Of Life
We are most truly alive when we not only revere life, but act on its behalf.
2. Reverence For
Human Life
It is harder to feel reverence for human life than nature or a divinity, but doing so is key to being truly alive.
Human Life
It is harder to feel reverence for human life than nature or a divinity, but doing so is key to being truly alive.
3. Meaningful Work and
Life-Purpose
Facing death can increase our desire to risk making our work more meaningful, and to commit to our real life-purpose.
Life-Purpose
Facing death can increase our desire to risk making our work more meaningful, and to commit to our real life-purpose.
4. Social Action
and Interaction
Facing death can create empathy, leading to social action in which we learn from as well as help others.
and Interaction
Facing death can create empathy, leading to social action in which we learn from as well as help others.
5. A Politics
That Transforms
Nothing enlivens more than transformative political action. And nothing is harder to achieve.
That Transforms
Nothing enlivens more than transformative political action. And nothing is harder to achieve.
6. Global and
generational action
Truly facing our death leads us to act globally, and as ancestors concerned with our descendants.
generational action
Truly facing our death leads us to act globally, and as ancestors concerned with our descendants.