I'm telling you, the Buddhists have it right. If the problem of war is ever solved, I'm confident that what helped bring about that outcome will be parallel to what Buddhists have been trying to teach us all along.
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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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