[lbo-talk] Re: Meditations on 60

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Aug 21 18:12:23 PDT 2003


joanna bujes wrote:
>
> Jon wrote...
>
> "The Buddha remarked 25 centuries ago or so that old age is one of the 4
> principal forms of suffering in life (the others being birth, illness,
> and death), and that the only real escape from them is realizing that
> there is no escape from reality."
>
> "We must endure our going forth, even as our coming hither."
>
> King Lear
>

On the other hand,

"Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares And take the winds of march with beauty."*

Winter's Tale-

or

". . . .Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."

As You Like It

Carrol

*Quoted from memory



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