1.
"Is there life after death?" someone wanted to know.
This is the wrong question.
The appropriate question is, "How do I best live my life?"
2.
"Is there a God?"
This also is the wrong question.
The appropriate question is:
"How do I live my life as though
everyone contains a spark of the divine?"
3.
"Is there a heaven?" someone wanted to know.
This is the wrong question.
The appropriate question is, "How can I make a heaven a reality?"
4.
The great questions aren't about life somewhere else;
they are not about a life sometime else.
The great questions are matters of life and death --
right here, right now.
5.
The question isn't, who is God?
The question is, who am I?
6.
The question isn't, what does God mean?
The question is, what does being human mean?
7.
When the chain of goodness is broken, how should I live?
Do my part to repair the break.
8.
When my heart is breaking, where do I find solace?
By honoring those who are no longer with you.
9.
How do I honor those who are no longer with me?
By embodying their best values in your own life.
10.
Be honest with yourself:
What do you refuse to see?
What do you refuse to ask?
What do you refuse to listen to?
Do you choose ignorance?
11.
Question yourself.
Change the world.
12.
We can barely understand what a dream is.
Who then can speaks about visions?
Therefore, live well in this world.
Care for the life you have been given.
Learn what it means to be human.