TO WORK AS IF YOU ARE IMMORTAL, AND AS IF YOU ARE GOING TO DIE THE SAME DAY

While walking around the garden, having a wonderful time, though slowly, laboriously, I thought of a quote I read somewhere that sounded like the title of this blog. I experienced the quote, actually. I don't know if I will return here next year -- one never knows! -- but I worked towards a vision of being here ten years hence, living to see the sapling cedars grow up to be healthy teenagers (at best. I know I don't have that long and deodars are slow growing) but working as if all these were my last acts. Very liberating, this working without attachment.