The ONE THING People Learn Too Late In Life | Best Motivational Speeches
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Life is a paradox—we are both limitless and fragile, creators of our own reality yet bound by time. As Abraham Maslow said, we are simultaneously gods and worms, capable of envisioning the infinite while existing in bodies that wither. This realization can be overwhelming, but it is also the key to understanding our power. We are not meant to simply exist; we are here to shape, to build, to create.Artists, dreamers, and visionaries have always been the ones to bridge the gap between what is and what could be. The challenge is to embrace both sides of our nature—to accept our limitations while daring to transcend them. Because in that space between what we know and what we imagine, the extraordinary happens.More from Eddie Pinero:Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletterYour World Within Podcast: https://yourworldwithin.libsyn.com/Stream these tracks on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2BLf6pBInstagram - @your_world_within and @IamEddiePineroTikTok - your_world_withinFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/YourworldwithinTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/IamEddiePineroBusiness Inquiries - http://www.yourworldwithin.com/contact#liveinspired #yourworldwithin #motivation
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| 0:00.0 | We are simultaneously gods and worms. |
| 0:05.5 | It's a quote from Abraham Maslow that I was originally introduced to |
| 0:10.0 | when reading Ernest Becker's book, The Denial of Death. |
| 0:13.6 | And it's one of these concepts that has completely flipped my worldview on its head. |
| 0:21.6 | Because, to put it simply, this is something we all feel, this tension or this juxtaposition. |
| 0:30.6 | But we don't even realize we're feeling it, the duality. |
| 0:34.2 | We are finite beings with expiration dates entangled in this web of infinity. |
| 0:40.2 | We are ticking clocks, somehow dropped into a forever that's beyond our comprehension. |
| 0:48.6 | We are spirit connected to a divine, blessed with a godlike ability to see the unseen, |
| 0:56.5 | conceived via little projectors behind our eyes. |
| 1:01.3 | We're taking in our surrounding, sure, but we are also projecting out that vision, |
| 1:06.3 | real-life directors on the film set that is life. |
| 1:11.1 | Oh, and by the way, doing this, beneath slowly decaying flesh, right, a meat suit made of the same |
| 1:19.6 | material as dogs and birds and worms, while our minds soar to the infinite, our bodies fade away. |
| 1:26.6 | Soon to be given back to the earth, where bodies fade away, soon to be given back to the earth where our vessels |
| 1:30.7 | will become nothing more than dirt for worms. |
| 1:36.0 | And I've touched on this a few times over the years on this podcast, on YouTube, mainly because |
| 1:41.6 | how could you not? |
| 1:44.4 | But I've never known what to do with it, |
| 1:48.5 | which I think is one of the points of Becker's book, |
| 1:51.9 | that juxtaposition is almost impossible, right? |
| 1:56.5 | Those godlike creatures, neatly packaged and earthly material. |
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