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poet’s pen turns them to shape and gives an airy nothing a local habitation and a name.”10
Moreover, an abundant life that is lived completely immersed and present in every moment of the day, where every activity we do, is done with integrity and love and with plenty of forgetting. A life of gratitude for the miracle of life and our blessings and misfortunes, for sometimes, in misfortune, there is, in the long term, a hidden blessing. To feel sheer joy just by being alive, as Emily Dickinson did, just by understanding how infinite the depths of our souls and natures are, as Walt Whitman did, to feel the wonder of nature and philosophy, as Aristotle and Plato did, to know how fragile our lives are, to know ourselves, to love and be loved, to respect and be respected, to give and be given to. To be daringly creative and imaginative, as Einstein suggested or to experience that road of excess that “leads to the palace of wisdom” or to place imagination as the essential most divine quality by which God manifests himself in human beings as Blake claimed. Only these will delete the concept of time and carry us through the
10 Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. 5.1 231
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