I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, to your community around you, to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.