3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“All created things are transitory; those who realize this are freed from suffering. This is the path that leads to pure wisdom.”
—The Dhammapada (1st century BCE)
“In the end, respiration and burning are equivalent; the slight delay in the middle is what we know as life.“
—The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, by Nick Lane (2015)
“Beginnings, it’s said, are apt to be shadowy.“
—The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)