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Happiness if overcoming our misery.
Misery is losing what we think brings us happiness.
Yet, we still cling to these as though they are ours.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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