"Your body must ...."

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Dag Hammarskjold

"He is a person ...."

He is a person who is so impassioned that he forgets to eat, who is so joyous that he forgets to be worried, and who grows into old age without noticing time passing by.

Confucius on himself.

"The call of death ...."

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hermann Hesse

"The notion of the infinite variety ...."

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

Annie Dillard

Beauty in many forms

Beauty in many forms
Gratitude in many ways.

Folds, layers

Folds, layers,
no matter
if unfold.

Passion afire

Passion afire,
Any age
is a good age.