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When You Notice Light Seeping Into Your Coffin, It's Hard To Go On Pretending That You're Still Dead.

The Great Weakness Of The West Is That It Has Nothing With Which To Inspire Loyalty Except Wealth. But What Is Wealth? Another Washing Machine, A Bigger Car, A Nicer House To Live In? Not Much To Feed The Spirit In All That.

Just Studying Buddhism, Then Meditating And Going To Buddhist Monasteries, Talking To Buddhist Monks, Combined With The Thai People Themselves, Changed The Way I Look At The World.

It Is Quite Amazing How Hard The Subconscious Works When It Is Made To Understand That This Life Is Not A Rehearsal, There Is No Safety Net And No Assurance Of Any Final Closure. It Is Also Quite Appalling To Realize How Catatonic The Imagination Can Become When We Hedge Our Bets, Opt For The Safer Direction At Every Fork In The Path.

Expecting To Be Wrong About Most Things Most Of The Time Brings, Finally, The Kind Of Humility That Leads To Peace. I Think.