1. LIFE IS SHORT

Human life is limited. Though you may live a long time, you cannot live much longer than one hundred years. (172-28)

Let us say you lived for about eighty years. If you take out the sleeping time, then it is reduced by half to forty. Is sleeping living? Sleeping is like being dead. Isn't it so? Sleeping is dying. For this reason, out of the twenty-four hours, you live and struggle only for half of it. Then what if we take out one hour for eating time? Furthermore, if we take out the time for parties, celebrations, funerals and so on, then will you really live for even half your life? I calculated last time, and I found that we spend only seven years in real living. Out of these seven years, how many days can be counted as a day of true living? Is there even one such day? (49-336)

However we suffer, it does not last longer than eighty or a hundred years-thirty-six thousand days. The thirty-six thousand days go by very quickly. Can't you endure for such a short time? God has been enduring for hundreds of millions of years. However miserable the human world may be, God is not swayed. Although He has millions of stories within His heart, He does not show any agitation. (124-59)

Life runs quickly. By the time you mature and understand how the world is, you are already forty or fifty, and the next ten years go by in an instant. Then quickly you will become sixty and seventy. The expression that life is one great dream of spring beauty feels so real. (139-153)

Life is not something that is around all the time. It exists for us only once. It will disappear in a moment, as fast as one clap of the hands. (139-153)

Our life is very short, isnit it? But this one generation goes up and down the measure of eternity. It can be extended infinitely. On the other hand, when it is bent, a new heaven and earth starts from there. It goes up and down like a weighing balance. It is like that. (46-155)

You don't know when your life will go away. When will you act? Even if you act right now, this is not enough, because time is still running away, and you don't know when your time will be finished.

(104-290)