It’s my birthday today. I’m well past 70, and I make no secret of it.
My workload is intense. And I’m tired.
I love my work — deeply, sincerely. It’s the stress tied to the challenges I’ve been facing lately that has me wondering whether I can continue… in these conditions.
In all of us, in every being, there is immortality. The essence, that which is, beyond all thought, circumstance and manifestation, what we might call the spirit of every being, is immortal. However, in the physical manifestation of the material world, we are subject to the law of cause and effect. Thus, all the attachments, aversions and indifferences that stir within us have the consequence of bringing us back again and again into a body subject to suffering, old age and death.