《遮蔽的天空》：你还能看到几次满月升起？

生命的长度看似无限延伸，或许只是因为不知何时将逝。

我们不知道自己何时死去，所以会将生命视为取之不尽的深井。

而实际上，任何事件的发生频率都有限而稀少。

你还会记起你童年的某个下午多少次呢？

那段记忆也许深烙于你的生命，以至于你无法想象，没有它，你的生活会是什么样子？

四五次？或许更少。

你还会看到满月升起多少次呢？

二十次？但似乎感觉无穷无尽。

——《遮蔽的天空》

Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well,

yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really.

How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood,

some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it?

Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                             <The Sheltering Sky>

life and experiences are ephemeral.

We tend to think of life as endlessly expansive in the moment because we don't know when we will die.

But in reality, everything in life is limited and fleeting. Be in full awareness of the impermanence of all things.