The Shadow Side of Memento Mori

This is the lesson that made time stop.

“Every moment of our lives has tremendous value, yet we let the time go by, like gold dust running through our fingers.

What is more sad than coming to the end of ones life empty handed?

We need to be aware that every second of our life is inestimably precious, and to have the intelligence to decide to make the best use of it, for our own good, and for the good of others.” 

-Matthieu Ricard, French writer and Buddhist monk. 

*When he says empty handed, he does not mean something you can hold… 

He speaks of “that which lives on”. 

With that, let’s get into tonights entry…there’s another side to the memento mori thing: