Rev. Danny Fisher

Today’s quote is from Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche, founder and president of Jewel Heart, “a spiritual, cultural, and humanitarian organization that translates the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism into contemporary life,” and author of Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation.  This is it–a quote included in a post today at the Tricycle Editors’ Blog:

…This life is wonderful, but there are limitations. Before those limitations take over, achieve what you want to achieve. Do something while you are able to. Right now everything is wonderful, enjoyable, but that well being is temporary. It could change at any minute. Anything can go wrong at any moment.

This talk of death or impermanence is not meant to make you afraid. The whole purpose of it is for you to have compassion for yourself. And travel well.