We have no reason to fear death. Why fear the end of fear itself? We live for only one reason: because we love life, all of it, any of it. And if it disappoints us that there is not enough happiness in the world, not enough goodness, we can contribute to rectifying that. And that is what gives our lives meaning. The more good things we can create or teach and thus leave behind for others, the more problems and difficulties we can remove, the more lives we can light up with our effort and company and companionship, then the more precious our short existence will have been, and the more
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