Something I read, should have noted where I read it: when you see an avalanche coming toward you, the very few rocks that are going to intersect with the outline of your body are your problem. All the rest of the avalanche, no matter how many tons traveling at what speed, is just noise and dust. You can live a whole lot of your life that way. Which isn’t to say you can just observe the things that go past you, let things happen without getting upset if they don’t involve you. What I mean is if you’re an avalanche, aim RIGHT for that jerk standing there and MAKE AN IMPACT.
If you imagine an indulgence that you should probably not indulge, it’s just as good as indulging – in your imagination. The trick is to imagine that you imagine it, and keep adding layers of imagining that you imagine that you imagine, etc. This adds a near-infinite amount of almost indulging… good enough! Like Zeno’s paradox, you won’t ever quite get there. But you’ll get 99.99(999…) % there. Good enough! Good enough!
Light is not diminished by its own reflection, and neither should you. “The longer you live, the closer you get to your death. Not me though. Heh heh.” – J. R. “Bob” Dobbs. I think he was fibbing when he said that. Or it was some kind of stretch of a joke / lesson that he won’t be close to you at YOUR death.
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