daily contemplation

"Another way to get a sense of your life moving continuously towards death is to imagine being on a train, which is always traveling at a steady speed-- it never slows down or stops, and there is no way that you can get off. This train is continuously bringing you closer and closer to its destination: the end of your life."

~ Sangye Khadro

"Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death."

~ Irvin D. Yalom

"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."

~ R. Buckminster Fuller