“Life is short. Spend your substance honoring your deathless dreams because that’s why they’re inside you.” – Arnold Kunst

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

27 June

Every one of us was born utterly deficient in this, or deficient in that. You might even say each of us has been dealt an utterly despairing hand – and now we’re meant, somehow, to play out that hand, morphing it into success. Even so, be assured you’ll get all of what counts on this side of the grave by taking seriously any one of the abiding urges – the innocent, abiding urges – you just can’t escape, and pursuing that urge with the persistence and imagination that success in any human endeavor demands. In other words, you’re to pursue it with relentless single-mindedness – Think Henry Ford putting America on wheels. To change the metaphor, you’re to bloom where you’re planted like a flower blossoming incongruously at 14,000 feet on some sheer alpine rock face.