When you watch your elderly parents losing their memories, it's almost as if they are already (or partially) dead. The illusion of a stable self (mohā) is clearly torn down, leaving only the truth: this world is momentary.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out…
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)
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Today's poem:
On Growing Old
- by John Masefield
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Forgotten faces,
yet the heart still remembers
the warmth of their eyes.
Light Hearted
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