none of us knows when our life, or the lives of those around us who we most love, will end, and that the ending can take us by surprise. We all know this, of course, but how many of us have the wisdom to go about our daily rounds integrating this awareness into all our actions, into all our decisions, whether those decisions are matters of consequence or matters of inconsequence, to find pleasure in the commonplace, to integrate into our lives what it really means to, with profound awareness, live fully in the moment?
