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The parts make up the whole.
Some parts disappear forever, some parts are created anew.
The parts and the whole are one and the same. It's the perspective that shifts.
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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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