The Eastern sages of Hinduism teach these four
stages of life and no more:
One.) You are the student learning to learn
forever more;
Two.) You are the householder caring
for two, three, four or maybe more;
Three.) You are the free and easy forest dweller
now out of the store;
Four.) You are the wise and fully enlightened one,
not attached and soon to be no more.

*Debts to Richard Rohr’s on-line meditation on Hinduism, 09/18/2015