The sorrow and the sweetness

Life is sweet and we cling to it, but it’s entirely possible that humans won’t make the evolutionary cut. Would this be tragic? No. Well we know that nothing lasts. Therein lies the sweetness.

Hair, food, blood

The hair grows, the food is digested, the blood circulates, and we’re not doing it. Life happens by itself. Somewhere, at an awards ceremony, a competitor exults, “I did it!” No, he didn’t

Life

We do not make it happen. We are to whom it happens. We are not actors. We are the the acted upon. The truth is what surprises us, what we did not foresee.

More, please

We seek to enrich ourselves through a lifelong process of acquisition. And to fatten our memory banks through experiences of food, travel and various entertainments. None of this brings us closer to ourselves. “Most of us die wishing we could live again,” observed Nisargadatta.  

Deathless

Bodies come and go but the life that we are does not die.