As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour. And if it can be done for an hour then it can also be done for the days and years that may remain. All wise people, all people who are searching after knowledge, must look about them and contemplate. All things, whether living or non-living, are transient.
Nothing is lasting, nothing is permanent.
A day of glory is as a passing cloud. Wherever we look, there is this chaos, this vast unrest, this something that cannot be satisfied. And the contemplative mind that seeks the reason of things must ask, must demand, must search out and find if there is anything lasting, anything permanent, anything enduring, any resting-place. Because you are sincere, because you really encourage freedom, you build, you protect them in every possible way to make them grow towards that freedom, not by suppression, or the obeying of authority, the following of blind belief or untested conditions of thought. Quite a different attitude of mind is required.