"The Dalai Lama ... reminds us that the only way to live in a world of constant change is not to pretend that it might be otherwise. We may have little control over external circumstances, but we have a lot of control over how we respond to them, and how much we choose to take loss to be fresh opportunity. [...]
"But the ever-more-visible precariousness of our homes – and the places we love – is telling us, every hour, not to waste a moment or assume that everything will remain the same."
–– Pico Iyer (b. 1957) British-born novelist and essayist
Source: Pico Iyer. 'The Vanishing.' The Globe and Mail, Saturday, August 26, 2023, p. O3;
