“The root of suffering is attachment.” – The Buddha

 From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst 

14 October 

I came into this world with nothing, and that’s how I’ll leave. When death comes, everything I’ve garnered since birth will be taken away – all my worldly goods, toys, family, talents, the lot. All I’ll take with me is the love, the peace, the encouragement, the vibrant sense of justice, the childlike sense of wonder that I’ve given away with God’s very own prodigality. In fact, my guarantee of eternal bliss is that they’re the only “things” that belong to that realm of the timeless and the spaceless, a realm that is – surprise, surprise! - my natural habitat.