It's only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life. - Oliver Burkeman

In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth.

Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

To remember how little you matter, on a cosmic timescale, can feel like putting down a heavy burden that most of us didn't realize we were carrying in the first place.