“To succeed at this life, they had to constantly feed their vision of it, or it would wither and die”
“... if i die what will become of them? ... What will become of them? ... Who would feed it and who would feed them all?”
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
“Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.”
“To succeed in life...we must constantly work on restraining ourselves from negative thoughts...strengthening our positive qualities in the process.”