Well, perhaps she could try not to underestimate him, like Dajer was obviously doing. This was another point her master had made, repeatedly, to her. Her people—as powerful, immortal beings that were regularly worshipped—had a habit of being…
Well, “distinctly insufferable” was how her master had put it. And for all that her uncle and Hoid had different worldviews, Frost had encouraged her apprenticeship. She still remembered what he’d said. Learn from him. For he is one of the few grander than we are, and yet he treats all the same.
While “same” to Master Hoid involved a great deal of mockery, she hoped she had learned what her uncle wanted. A little.
Humans were always doing things they didn’t like doing. In fact, to my best estimate, at any one time only point three per cent of humans were actively doing something they liked doing, and even when they did so, they felt an intense amount of guilt about it and were fervently promising themselves they’d be back doing
something horrendously unpleasant very shortly.
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Presiding over these far-flung outposts from his seat in the Mesopotamian city of Seleucia (near what is now Baghdad, Iraq) was the Catholicos, the patriarch of the Church of the East. The most prominent of these patriarchs was Timothy I, who held the position from 780 to 823.
To appreciate the scale of his domain, consider that by the early ninth century England had two Catholic bishops, one in York and one in Canterbury. At the same point in history, Timothy presided over nineteen metropolitans and eighty-five bishops, including a bishop in the rugged mountains of Tibet.
Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point. And eventually we choose it, in spite of ourselves. Or we give up and take it deliberately.
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time -- past and future and the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
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