All Come from Dust, and All Return to Dust
All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all return to dust.
The Preacher says plainly that human and beast return to the same dust.
I, who will return to the same dust, why did I weigh so much of high and low today?
📝Reflection
The Preacher says plainly that human and beast return to the same dust. To the proud it is a cold warning; to the weary, a deep comfort. If we all return to the same dust, how light the ranks and comparisons that crush us today become. The Buddha called this body "an illusion borrowed for a while." To remember we return to dust — memento mori — does not darken life but makes this breathing moment radiant. Only one who knows death lives today.
🌱Apply It Today
For a rank or comparison that shrank you today, look again through the eye of "we who return to the same dust."
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
