Anish

“  Are you oblivious to the sufferings of birth, old age, sickness and death? There is no guarantee that you will survive, even past this very day! The time has come [for you] to develop perseverance in [your] practice. For, at this singular opportunity, you could attain the everlasting bliss [of nirvāṇa]. So now is [certainly] not the time to sit idly, But, starting with [the reflection on] death, you should bring your practice to completion!3   The moments of our life are not expendable, And the [possible] circumstances of death are beyond imagination. If you do not achieve an undaunted confident security now, What point is there in your being alive, O living creature?”
― Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation

“Only those who have cultivated the art of living completely in the present have any use for making plans for the future, for when the plans mature they will be able to enjoy the results.”
― James Fadiman, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

“Nothing is as simultaneously fear inspiring and arousing for women as a Man she suspects is self-aware of his own value.”
― Rollo Tomassi, The Rational Male

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven