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We Journey from Birth Onto Death. Does Life Offer Something More?

With Christopher Titmuss recorded on January 30, 2022.

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Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts.
Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.
We might find ourselves convinced of a bend at the end of the road or not.
We base our views on notions of time, of divisions of past, present and future.
We think we are wired this way. That’s what we think.
Thought is unreliable.  Receptivity outside the tiny construction of thought matters.
A single sentence can change a life.
Don’t forget a simple truth. You never thought it could happen.
And it did.

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