06/18/2010

Seize the Day - Make your Lives Extraordinary (with Video Clip from Dead Poets Society))

The greatest clip from any film ever made!

Robin showing the boys the truth of their mortality - 

Gather ye rose buds while ye may - 

If not now then when?

The power of this scene is the introduction of death - "these boys are now fertilizing daffodils"

In every workshop that I have ever given regarding death this scene has been mentioned.

It shows how contemplating our own impermanence has tremendous effects on our motivation to do good.

To shake our self out of complacency - to bring confidence, drive and a fierce certainty kicking doubt and misery into touch.

Enjoy life and use it for its highest possible attainment before its over... 

18 Jun 2010 15:37:11

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