Thought for the Day
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A Thought for the Day From Sri Eknath Easwaran
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February 22

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm,
a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
- The Buddha

Time runs out so soon! In our teens and twenties, even our thirties,
we have ample margin to play with the toys life has to offer. But we
should find out soon how fleeting they are, for the tides of time can
ebb away before we know it. We live from moment to moment by God's
grace, and none of us knows when death will come to cut the thread of
our lives. death. As we grow older and our family and friends begin
to pass away, we see how relentlessly time is pursuing all of us;
every death should remind us of the imminence of our own. There is
no time to quarrel, no time to feel resentful or estranged. There
is no time to waste on the pursuit of selfish pleasures that are
over almost before they begin.

The all-devouring jaws of time are following us always, closer
than our shadow. As long as I live only for myself, as a feverish
little fragment apart from the whole, I cannot escape the jaws of
time. It is good to bear in mind how evanescent life is so that we
do not postpone the voyage across this sea of separate existence,
the ceaseless process of birth and death.

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>From Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" (Nilgiri Press, 1997)
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