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[Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is It Am, Isn't It Am?

i think it's probably not possible to fully grasp just how insignificant ah a single life span is against cosmic time. i think that for me anyway, some version of this has been a real, sort of source of paralysis and self doubt when you are doing them. And there's something incredibly liberating in understanding just how just how tiny am each us is in the scheme of things. It reconfigures the definition of what it is to live a meaningful life. People want to say, well, but things we do now are really going to matter for ever. But on an individual level,  you had better not have any reason to give up your day job or volunteer as long as people

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