Like that relative at a birthday or Christmas who unwraps each present slowly, taking care not to tear the beautiful paper, we unfold ourselves to someone new, quietly hoping that the gift within will–perhaps miraculously–merit our deliberateness.
- So you should view this fleeting world a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. -- Diamond Sutra