I sometimes take in the world around me. It depends on the scenery. More often than not, I use this time to escape the world; it has little need of me for the nonce.
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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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