Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Obviously the people feel it was too much of an increase, and we have to listen to the voters. In the next couple of days we'll make some phone calls and find out what people wanted. We'll need to come as close to a 0 percent increase as we can.

Time passes irrevocably.

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long - / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.