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“There are innumerable unanswerable questions that plague humankind. It is permissible to accept the unknown and unknowable as establishing the outer limits of human possibilities. Unanswerable questions – questions with no provable correct answers – describe the boundaries of human existence. All we know for sure is that everything that is alive will die.”

“Nothing is going to be alright. Body will decay and die. Mind will wither and decline. All that is beloved and pleasing will become otherwise. Will be separated from us. The world is a burning pit, and we are all in deep sh*t. Why, oh why? Home is muddy, sadly roam. ~ But wait! ~ Everything is also alright. There is this body. But I am not this body. There is this mind. But I am not this mind. So never mind. I cannot be separated from what is truly mine. I can only be separated from what was never mine to begin with. The world is a dancing lotus, under an open sky. My, oh my! Om Mani Padme Hum ~ Smile, rejoice, you're already home.”

“Even when people die in a hurricane, a car accident or a war, we tend to view it as a technical failure that could and should have been prevented. If the government had only adopted a better policy; if the municipality had done its job properly; and if the military commander had taken a wiser decision, death would have been avoided. Death has become an almost automatic reason for lawsuits and investigations. ‘How could they have died? Somebody somewhere must have screwed up.”

“The story of Sisyphus is no different from what we have to go through every day of our lives. We wake up, toil during the day, come home eventide and rest only to begin toiling again the next day. The only difference is that we are mere mortals and one day, we will die. Death excuses us from our daily toils unlike Sisyphus who has to toil till eternity.”

“Sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, I wondered if Peter’s assurances that I would never grow up were only assurances that I would die before such a thing happened. I wondered if that were better, to die before I became something withered and grey and not wanted.”