Easy is what’s bad to do,
what’s harmful to oneself.
But what is good, of benefit,
is very hard to do.
-The Dhammapada
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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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