P.D. Ouspensky
Author: P.D. Ouspensky
Publisher: Vintage (1971)

There is only one thing we can change: we can try to awake and hope to remain awake. If we have to come back, we cannot stop it. We are in a train, the train is going somewhere. All we can do is to pass the time in the train differently—do something useful or spend it quite uselessly.