Twenty-one grams of energy goes into the universe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
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What do you believe happens when we die?Originally asked
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Our friends are sad and miss us for a bit but, hopefully, they find other people at the party.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
A nice long rest.
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Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
My difficulty to forgive.
Pretending I’m happy when I’m not.
His holiness the Dalai Lama and his ability to forgive.
Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
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University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen
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