A life
Two things today:
1.
The wise ones assembled and invited some babalawo to interpret the teachings of Ifá on death. They asked why it is that death kills people and there is no one who does not die.
The babalawo said that it is good that Amuniwaye, the one who brought us into the world, created death. Water, which does not flow back and forth, becomes a pond of polluted water.
Water takes people away freely and water brings them back freely. Let them go home to receive a new body. The babalawo asked: “What is so unpleasant about this?”
– From Osogbo - Speaking to the Spirits of Misfortune by Ócha’ni Lele.
2.
To live till you die
is to live long enough.
– From Lao Tzu: Tao The Ching translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Image by Alex Dukhanov.