Dhammapada, Chapter IV, Aphorism 47: Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village. Don't waste your time.
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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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