When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you--ten, twenty, thirty times a day.
At the beach, fifty years later, the old man understands finally that much of what he disavowed in himself before recognizing its irretrievable value, most of the heartache he caused himself and those...
Buddhist monk Sogyal Rinpoche put it this way: Perhaps it is only those who understand just how fragile life is who know how precious it is.