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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
When you think about it, life on this planet is pretty mundane. It's an endless cycle of life, death, war, peace, prosperity, and famine. To be sure there have been many advances made and anybody from 100 years ago would look at today's world in utter amazement, but in the end, it's all the same.
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"We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy
as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
-Thomas Jefferson
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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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