Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.'Fear?' he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?'That's big.'Yes. But there's something else.'What else?He leaned forward.'Being forgotten,' he whispered.

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, 'Do you think those pills work?'Not like that, I said.'No,' he agreed. 'Not like that.

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