The past no longer is. The future has yet to come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait for tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Twain, from The Quotable Mark Twain R. Kent Rasmussen, ed. It is easier for a tortoise to put its neck into the hole of a yoke tossed about in the middle of the ocean than to find a human existence - the teacher of gods and humans has said. Therefore, from today onwards you just have to make efforts.