"Transcendent, timeless spirit!" When he read to her from an early book of his, she reported that "the invisible" gathered so thickly around her, "lights and sounds came from such far times and spaces, that from center to circumference I trembled with the excessive life-force" — a remarkable response, in view of the fact that the book was in Arabic, a language she did not then understand.
The question of 'medically futile' interventions and excessive life-prolonging treatment has been raised by several authors.
Occasionally, when the ulcer erodes into a large vessel, bleeding is excessive and life-threatening.
Karl Rove was one of many Republican leaders who suggested that excessive pro-life fervor is dangerous, arguing that Cuccinelli "could not escape his past words on abortion, birth control and divorce laws".
The price we pay for excessive real-life reinvention can be the loss of our own best self, a core character with potential for change but held together by some version of the Golden Rule -- treating others as we would like to be treated.
Excessive planning, living a double life, destroying lives with gossip, being vain, and trying to fill an empty heart by chasing after wealth and power were all among the faults he found in the members of his administration.
Daschle's also talked tough about the waste among private health insurers, the profiteering of drug companies and the need for curbing excessive end of life care under Medicare that fails to improve the quality of life, but costs taxpayers a fortune.
But in recent years, Chileans have begun complaining about the excessive privatisation of life: "And then the elites began turning their gaze back towards Europe".
But now I do wonder: What if the excessive demands of life today are creating ever-larger categories of people who can't reach their potential due to handicaps that in an easier time were just quirks?
The other category is "case poverty," which he says is "commonly and properly related to [such] characteristics of the individuals so afflicted [as] mental deficiency, bad health, inability to adapt to the discipline of modern economic life, excessive procreation, alcohol, insufficient education".
Even if we manage to extend our current, wasteful and excessive way of life for another generation, the real point is it's not all about us!
