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...Americans on the shores of the Great Lakes often wake in a cold sweat in the dead of winter. If the evening is a quiet one, many will claim they can hear--across the vast and frozen waters--the unmistakable sound of thousands of Canadians sharpening their ice skates...
...they don't know when, the don't know where, but one day....
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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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