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Life has not been rehearsed
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Your life has not been rehearsed. It is an adventure, and a discovery, and a training, and it is the final goal that matters.
--- I'm not sure how to understand that phrase. I take it to mean that my life is not a rehearsal, but an adventure, a discovery etc.
Here's the full passage: http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/alcoholism-12-step-support/213142-around-year-emmet-fox-11-november-2010-a.html
Your life has not been rehearsed. It is an adventure, and a discovery, and a training, and it is the final goal that matters.
--- I'm not sure how to understand that phrase. I take it to mean that my life is not a rehearsal, but an adventure, a discovery etc.
Here's the full passage: http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/alcoholism-12-step-support/213142-around-year-emmet-fox-11-november-2010-a.html
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If you attend a performance of a stage play, you can see it more than once without it ending differently. It has been rehearsed and follows a script. In contrast to that, your life is unpredictable and unrehearsed, largely because you cannot anticipate what other influences will force you to respond to.
- If you attend a performance of a stage play, you can see it more than once without it ending differently.
- It has been rehearsed and follows a script.
- In contrast to that, your life is unpredictable and unrehearsed, largely because you cannot anticipate what other influences will force you to respond to.
- It is a learning experience, a sort of ‘ad-lib’ event that cannot be repeated.
- Yes it is an adventure that has not been rehearsed.
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If you attend a performance of a stage play, you can see it more than once without it ending differently. It has been rehearsed and follows a script. In contrast to that, your life is unpredictable and unrehearsed, largely because you cannot anticipate what other influences will force you to respond to. It is a learning experience, a sort of ‘ad-lib’ event that cannot be repeated. Yes it is an
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NewguestYour life has not been rehearsed. ... I'm not sure how to understand that phrase. I take it to mean that my life is not a rehearsal, but an adventure, a discovery etc.You take it correctly.
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