There is something very mysterious in the thought that “they are going to die, and you are going to die”

When you think that one day your wife will die, your husband one day will die, your father and mother one day will die, you behave in a different way toward them. You respect them. You care for them. You value them because you see that you do not own them. They may go any moment from your hands.

You must think about your friends who are going to die, your teachers, your best students, those who served you, your daughters, your sons.

There is something very mysterious in the thought that “they are going to die, and you are going to die.” Do this so that you come to your senses. What the mystery is I do not know yet. You respect them more. You do not rely too heavily on them because you know that one day they will go.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3