It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
