We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happens to us is divinely great, and we are always in the centre of a great world. But we must accustom ourselves to live like an angel who has just sprung to life, like a woman who loves, or a man on the point of death. If you knew that you were going to die to-night, or merely that you would have to go away and never return, would you, looking upon men and things for the last time, see them in the same light that you have hitherto seen them? Would you not love as you never yet have loved?. Maurice Maeterlinck
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We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life. We are all here because we are alive. There is no need to look for a meaning or a purpose to life, you are there because you are alive, it's that simple.

The only way you know why you are alive is because that is the only place you can be. It doesn't matter if you love or hate or even if you die, when you die you're just going back to where you came from.

Source: The Treasure Of The Humble

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