Life

To be or not to be is not the question.  We are (the one writing, and those reading this, exist).  To live or not to live; that is the question.  A creation can exist without living (see Biology 101). 1

Life is both the drive of needs as well as the actions pursuant to meeting those needs.  Needs move.  Needs mobilize to express and satisfy themselves.  Without the driving movement of our individual needs, we are not living.  We choose how to best fill our needs.  There are two plans for filling our needs, and we are always ever choosing one or the other.  How man mobilizes to express and get his needs met determines whether he will have life abundantly, or merely exist. 

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1 Well, my young friends, the biggest tragedy of life is not to live — not to function with your full soul, with your whole life, with enthusiasm, with spirit, with faith, with love. Lowell L. Bennion, “Overcoming Our Mistakes,” Tambuli, Jul 1981, 47  ~  "When death finds you, may it find you alive" - African proverb