Junk Yard Quote Week 8

When the exalted Guatama, teaching, spoke of the world, he had to divide it into samsara and nirvana, into illusion and truth, into suffering and release. [...] Never is a man or deed wholly samsara or wholly nirvana, never is a person entirely saintly or entirely sinful. It only seems so because we are subject to the illusion that time is something real. [...] And if time is not real, then the span that seems to lie between world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between evil and good, is also an illusion. -Hermann Hesse _Siddhartha_