Ira Israel

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Psychotherapist & Author Ira Israel explicates one of his own quotes.

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May we live forever, or at least until we die. I guess I'm a little embarrassed by so I've been on this book tour, essentially. And so I had a buddy who asked me to sign one of my books over to him. And it's interesting, cuz he's a painter, and I'm a writer. And one of the reasons we paint or write is to try to have some sort of immortality, which is complete fiction. And it's funny because I watched the recent documentary, this something about Frank Zappa, and at the end of his life, he was my age now, and he was dying.

And this interviewer asked, How do you want to be remembered? And just said, I don't it doesn't matter. And this is a man who made 600 Records and you know, really did amazing things bring in classical music and jazz and all this iron. And a whole genre, literally, the Minecraft genre. And like, what doesn't matter, like I'm going to be dead. So what does it matter what I think of how I want to be remembered?

Totally, sir. And it kind of touched me. So, I was tying this book over to a buddy of mine. And, you know, as I said, I've gone through about 80 of his 80 of his paintings. I have three of them hanging out my proudly hanging on my walls, and I was signing my my book and just came to me I wrote, maybe we live forever, or at least until we die. I had a professor at the University who said You only live once if that.

So what does it mean to be alive? Like what does it mean for me to be awakened to be able to lead a meaningful life and recognize that it's all fucking bullshit? This is all fucking bullshit. Doesn't matter just doesn't matter. Our minds are making meaning our minds are craving certainty our mind want the world to get into some kind of thing that makes sense.

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