Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
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.
