One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive.
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
He who is in the fire, and he who is here in the heart, and he who is yonder in the sun - he is One.
But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own first.
