Best words from "The 5AM Club"

"If we have the courage to look within, we discover that we do this because we have a series of holes within us. We falsely believe that material from outside will fill what's empty within ourselves. Yet is never will. Never will. Anyhoo, when many of us reach the half-time point of our lives, we make a right-angle turn. We begin to realize that we're not going to live forever and that our days numbered. And so, we connect with our mortality. Big point here. We realize we are going to die. What's truly important comes into much sharper focus. We become more contemplative. We start to wonder if we've been true to our talents, loyal to our values and successful on the terms that feel right to us. And we think about what those we most love will say about us when we're gone. That's when many of us make a giant shift: from seeking legitimacy in society to constructing a meaningful legacy.

The last fifty years then become less about 'me' and more about 'we'. Less about selfishness and more about service. We stop adding more things into our lives and begin to subtract-and simplify. We learn to save simple beauty, experience gratitude for small miracles, appreciate the priceless value of peace of mind, spend more time cultivating human connections and come to understnd that the one who gives the most victorious. And what's left of your life then becomes a phenomenon dedication to loving life itself as well as a ministry of kindness to the many. And this becomes, potentially, your gateway into immortality."