Every being who has traversed to the other shore has started from a starting point of ignorance and suffering. Think of yourself as one who has crossed the shore lifetimes ago, who has woken millions of mornings and died as many deaths.

You are one who wakes each day with an inexhaustible well of hope and understanding, yet with the knowledge of nothing at all.

Countless before you have felt the same twinge and walked the same.

You rise each day with the knowledge of none of these things.

“Thus have I heard…”