Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.
When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.
Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!
There's something vaguely erotic about watching a woman eat a banana while cupping two plums.
Always remember, you don't stop shitting your pants because you grow old. You grow old because you stop shitting your pants.
Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.
Maybe the next three Star Wars movies will tell the story of how the last three Star Wars movies got so shitty.
I don't do all the background and the worldbuilding before I start the story. What I do is I work out the bare minimum I need to start the story, and often that really is a bare minimum - it's a character in a situation, and I know nothing about the character, I know nothing about the situation, and then I think about it for a long time, and make notes about where I think the story is going to go and so on, but I don't really make notes to do with the background or the magic system or the world.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.
The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.