Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
Do not race after riches, do not risk your life for success, or you will let slip the heaven within you.
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
