Shunryu Suzuki Roshi:
Life is like stepping onto a boat
which is about to sail
out to sea
and sink
"Proximity to death wakes us up. Death dispels the most potent illusion about life - that i t belongs to us, and that we have all the time we need to arrange it the way we awant. But in many ways it is a gift that our life is limited, impermanent. We hold it more dear because it is so."
~ Wayne Muller