Lama Marut: “Don’t wait until it may be too late, uh, to get clear on the concept of what’s important in life; of what’s really important in life. And, really, the only thing that’s important in life-the relationships, the money, the, you know, the job, none of that really matters. It really won’t matter. At the time of death all of that stuff will just seem like a dream. It’ll seem like just a dream. And, you know, you talk to old people and they’ll tell you this, right? “Life goes by like that.” (Snaps fingers.) It’s just like that. (Snaps fingers.) When you’re seventy, eighty years old, they’ll tell you, “It’s just like that.” (Snaps fingers) And, uh, people in their old age also get clear on the concept oftentimes too late as to what’s important in life. And the only thing that’s really important is “how did you treat other people?” How did you treat other people? Were you a compassionate person? Were you a person who thought more about other people than you thought about yourself? Or were you a big, fat selfish pig all your life? You know? And it really comes down to that. That’s the essence of karma. That’s the essence of karma. All good things come to people who think about others and all negative things come to us from thinking about ourselves all the time.”