“Fulfilled Life" by Bertrand Russell:
A quote from British philosopher, mathematician, historian and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) on a "Fulfilled Life".
Interestingly Russell places at the heart of a fulfilling life foremost the dissolution of the personal ego.
He writes, building on rivers as a metaphor of life:
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.“
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