07/09/2022
"Many of us consider growing up as a kind of increasing, and getting old as a kind of decreasing. When we say that humans go from ashes to ashes and from dust to dust, it doesn’t sound very joyful, because none of us wants to return to dust. It is our mind of discrimination that thinks this way, because we don’t know what dust really is. Every atom is a vast mystery. We still have not yet fully understood electrons and nuclei; for scientists, a speck of dust is very exciting. A particle of dust is a marvel."
Thich Nhat Hanh in 'The Other Shore'
(Taken from an extract published here: https://www.parallax.org/mindfulnessbell/article/the-other-shore/)
