Disbelieving Life's Essence

Those aspects of life that only infrequently occur, those moments when there is satisfaction and peace, when we do not need to question or stand in the way of life, are the more essential and so the more real; but we are not used to thinking that what consumes so little energy and uses so little time is what life is composed of in its essence.  The depth and value of life have less to do with time's length or with the energy it might consume.