To be Fully Alive

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron

We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible,
and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when
we concern ourselves with other people.
- Harry Chapin

One does not become fully human painlessly.
- Rollo May

Further Reading: Embracing Change

Upheaval

Staying Flexible