The beauty of youth is like a flash of lightning in the sky and wealth is unstable like dew on the tip of a blade of grass. Friends and relatives are inconstant like customers at the market place. Bestow your blessings so that I may be able to understand the true nature of impermanence.
-PRAYERS OF REQUEST TO THE LADY TARA
(translated by Carol Savvas)
Reference p66 in The Bond Between Women. A Journey of Fierce Compassion ~ China Galland
