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Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make. Am I right?

To survive,

Know the past.

Let it touch you.

Then let

The past

Go.

Belief

Initiates and guides action -

Or it does nothing.

Do not worship God

Inexorable God

Neither needs nor wants

Your worship.

Instead,

Acknowledge and attend God,

Learn from God,

With forethought and intelligence,

Imagination and industry,

Shape God.

When you must,

Yield to God.

Adapt and endure.

For you are Earthseed,

And God is Change.

We give our dead

To the orchards

And the groves.

We give our dead

To life.

All that you touch - You Change.

All that you Change - Changes you.

The only lasting truth - Is Change.

God - Is Change.

It is said in Fin Panir that the first paladins came out of the west, in a storm of light, riding horses so beautiful they hurt the eyes to see. A man and a woman, it is said, but no one remembers their names.

The gods invented seasickness to protect the English.

I will now tell the Panda Story to illustrate the importance of the presence or the absence of the comma. This panda walked into a tea shop and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man at the next table dead, and walked out. Everyone rushed after it, shouting, "Stop! Stop! Why did you do that?"

"Because I'm a panda," said the panda. "That's what pandas do. If you don't believe me, look in the dictionary."

So they looked in the dictionary and sure enough they found Panda: Raccoon-like animal of Asia. Eats shoots and leaves.

"Kotikokura, by saving the life of a human being, we merely endanger the life of another. It is futile to be kind and generous. 'Homo homini lupus.' Wolves all, - devouring one another, - and always the Jew the final scapegoat. So be it! We cannot help it. We must laugh or go mad." Kotikokura laughed heartily. I joined him.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, 'What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?'

It doesen't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.

This is it:

'Nothing.'

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Fjell skal sees, ikke høres.

"Det ukjente," sa Faxes myke stemme i skogen. "Det uforutsette, det som ikke er bevist, det er det livet er basert på. Uvitenheten er tankens grunnvoll. Det usikre er handlingens årsak. Hvis det ble bevist at det ikke finnes noen Gud, ville det ikke være noen religion. Ingen Handdara, ingen Yomesh, ingen arneguder, ingenting. Men det ville heller ikke være noen religion hvis det ble bevist at det finnes en Gud... Si meg, Genry, hva vet vi? Hva er det som er sikkert, mulig å forutsi, uunngåelig - den eneste sikre tingen du vet om din fremtid, og om min?"

"At vi skal dø."

"Ja. Det er i virkeligheten det eneste spørsmålet som det er mulig å besvare, Genry, og vi vet alt svaret... Det eneste som gjør livet mulig er konstant, uutholdelig usikkerhet: Ikke å vite hva som skal komme."

The old man shut his eyes, gulped several times, and replied: 'Who are you? Who is me? Answer my riddle and come and see,' and then he stamped impatiently, as if that had not been what he had wished to say.

The rest of us, we tremble, we hide when we see them passing by. We think, if those are angels, we must be something else altogether, but we can never find a better word for ourselves.