From Samuel Beckett's Ping: Ping perhaps a nature one second with image same time a little less blue and white in the wind... perhaps a way out there... Ping perhaps not alone.... Ping of old only just perhaps a meaning a nature...
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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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