"...Shunyata (emptiness) is rendered into English as “the Void” by translators who overlook the fact that the term is neither prefixed by a definite article (“the”) nor exalted with a capital letter, both of which are absent in classical Asian languages. From here it is only a hop, skip, and a jump to equating emptiness with such metaphysical notions as “the Absolute,” “the Truth,” or even “God.” The notion of emptiness falls prey to the very habit of mind it was intended to undermine."
-"Buddhism Without Beliefs", by Stephen Batchelor
"As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth."
-Goethe, West-öslicher Divan, translated through Alan Watts "Wisdom of Insecurity"
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he was the saddest man to hold a newborn, looking down and saying,
“i'm sorry for forcing you into this...
please don't resent me when you grow to know what this life is.”