memento mori, memento vivere: August 2011

Reflections

Vast ocean of dazzling light, marked by the waves of coming and going, being born and dying...

~ from the Gakki Fugen monthly memorial service

... By mistake I fell into the web of the mundane, and thirty years of my life have been frittered away...

~ Tao Yuanming

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

Fear of death is fear of life.

Soon you will be dead, and not yet are you of one mind, undisturbed, without suspicion that you can be truly harmed by external things; nor yet are you gracious in all circumstances; nor are you truly convinced that wisdom and right action are the same thing.

~ Marcus Aurelius 4.37

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

~ Gerald Burrill, Bishop of Chicago (died 2001)

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