溫故知新 Old wisdom, today’s insight — ONGO
The Departed Do Not Truly Go — They Only Seem to Vanish a While
Do I spend time quarreling with a child or parent, always realizing too late that our days together are finite?
The true self is neither born nor dies; though the body perishes, the love within it does not perish.
The Gita said the true self does not die, and though the body perishes the love within does not.
📝The Classic Answers
The Gita said the true self does not die, and though the body perishes the love within does not. This does not deny the sorrow of death; it is the comfort that love outlasts it. When a mother and daughter who bickered all their lives fully confirm their love only at the final moment, we realize with pain how much time we let slip into petty quarrels. I act as if conflict with a close one will last forever, yet the time together is always shorter than expected. Love remains even after one is gone — but that love is better expressed more while still alive. I choose to spend on love the time I would spend on quarreling.
🌱Apply It Today
Set down one petty quarrel with a close one today, and in its place put a single kind word instead.
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