Grateful Fools and Frightened Mice

We should not live and die like a dog.

At any moment, maybe this moment, life can deliver the most sublime pleasure or the most devastating pain. Typically we have no control over the delights and horrors life dishes out, but we can stop behaving like grateful fools and frightened mice. 

Because we seem so powerless compared with the power of the world around us we tend to act like dogs waiti…