Monday Reflection: Awareness

Awareness of impermanence is encouraged,
so that
when it is coupled with our appreciation
of the enormous potential of our human existence,
it will give us
a sense of urgency
that I must use every precious moment.

-H.H. The Dalai Lama

Monday Reflection

I have,
despite all disillusionment,
never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up.
This is my message today;
it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

—Alva Myrdal