I sometimes snap out of falling asleep because of a feeling of falling into a dark pit akin to hell. Scares the crap out of me, but in hindsight, I always thought it was pretty cool. The mind always amazes me.
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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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