What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.