“The way that people think once they’re born is that, having been born, they don’t want to die. Is that the right way to think? Take this glass here. If we pour water into it and yet don’t want it to be full—if we keep on pouring water into it and yet don’t want to be full—can we get what we want? It’s the same with people once they’re born. Once they’re born, they don’t want to die. Is that kind of thinking right? If things could really be that way, with everybody born and not having to die, we’d suffer even more than we do now. If nobody born into this world ever died, we’d all be eating one another’s shit. Where could we go to get away?
It’s like the water in this glass: Can you keep on pouring it in without wanting the glass to be full? That’s the way it is with the world. Get things into perspective. You can’t want not to die. That’s the way it has to be.”