Discontinued

Life is first and foremost discontinuous. From this derives our fear and anxiety.

Brevity

One Indian sage described the human experience as a gasp of pain between birth and death.

Love advancing

When our minds are still and our hearts quiet, life moves toward us.

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