Comments on: So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (23) http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2010/03/12/so-you-think-your-life-was-wasted-23/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-you-think-your-life-was-wasted-23 Everyday explorations into our extaordinary potential Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Charles Sides http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/index.php/2010/03/12/so-you-think-your-life-was-wasted-23/comment-page-1/#comment-953 Charles Sides Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:59:19 +0000 http://hologrambooks.com/hologrambooksblog/?p=1515#comment-953 Well, as you know, this one certainly "hit home" for me: "It’s one thing to know a thing abstractly, or theoretically. It’s another thing to know it emotionally as well. And it is yet a third thing, the vital thing, to actually live what you know." That statement is about as perfect as they come. And this one: "You needn’t succeed, you need only do it and that itself is the success." This is very profound! Even when it comes to writing I always ask myself, "What is the point? Who's going to read it?" From this perspective, just writing, or living for that matter, is enough in and of itself. Well, as you know, this one certainly “hit home” for me: “It’s one thing to know a thing abstractly, or theoretically. It’s another thing to know it emotionally as well. And it is yet a third thing, the vital thing, to actually live what you know.” That statement is about as perfect as they come.

And this one: “You needn’t succeed, you need only do it and that itself is the success.” This is very profound! Even when it comes to writing I always ask myself, “What is the point? Who’s going to read it?” From this perspective, just writing, or living for that matter, is enough in and of itself.

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