"Anjin-san forget the village. A thousand million things can occur before those six months occur. A tidal wave or earthquake, or you get your ship and sail away, or Yabu dies, or we all die, or who knows? Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here, and nothing you can do will change that. Today you're alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It's so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it... and do not worry about karma, yours [or mine.]"
-Excerpt from James Clavell's Shogun
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