Daily The World Grows Smaller,

After His Great Awakening, The Buddha Continued To Meditate And To Devote Himself To Others; Otherwise His Vision Would Have Receded Into A Pleasant Memory.

With Mind Distracted, Never Thinking, "death Is Coming," To Slave Away On The Pointless Business Of Mundane Life, And Then To Come Out Empty--it Is A Tragic Error. (116) Trans By Robert Thurman

Plato Described Ordinary Life As Unthinking, Lived In A Dim Cave Of Shadowy Reflections, But Said That It Is Possible To Leave The Cave And See Things In Sunlit Clarity As They Actually Are.

Not Only Is The Destiny Of The Individual Bound Up With The Entire Church; It Is Responsible For Helping To Sanctify The Entire World Of Nature And History.

Love Is The Movement Within Life That Carries Us, That Enables Us, That Causes Us To Break Out Of What Alan Watts Calls The “skin-encapsulated Ego.” Without Love, We Are Self-centered, But Love Enables Us To Move The Center Of Our Lives Outside Our Ego. Therefore It Expands Our Lives And, Needless To Say, Enriches It. Any Human Being Would Give Anything To Love Or Be Loved. When It Really Happens, It Is Like Heaven On Earth.