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2. WHOLENESS — The paradox is that death makes life whole. “In the visible world of nature, a great truth is concealed in plain sight: diminishment and beauty, darkness and light, death and life are not opposites. They are held together in the paradox of ‘hidden wholeness.’. ” — Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak.
Dec 29, 2014 · To understand the issue of the meaning of life, we must think about death. Pascal’s words echo across the centuries: Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn.
Nov 19, 2011 · New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right, death is an illusion. Our classical way of thinking is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence ...
Oct 22, 2020 · Death and Dying. Sadhguru: Death is a very fundamental question. Actually, death is closer to us than the statistics we read about it. Each moment, death is happening in us at the organ and cellular levels. This is how, with just one look at your insides, your doctor knows how old you are. In fact, death began in us even before we were born.
Aug 17, 2023 · The immortality of the soul is a very important point of Socratic philosophy as a whole and the core aspect of his views on death itself. According to Socrates, immortality can be proved by arguments resting on the existence of the cycle of life, the principle of recollection and the divine. In nature we can clearly observe that life emerges ...
The Meaning of Death. Laszlo Makay, George Marosan Jr. and David Vatai consider whether death destroys meaning or creates it. Unsurprisingly, people are obsessed with the meaning of their lives. Many also think that death is the antithesis of meaning – the single greatest obstacle to a meaningful life.
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Brooke Alan Trisel*. Abstract. Some people claim that death makes our lives meaningless. Bernard Williams and Viktor Frankl have made the opposite claim that death gives meaning to life. Although there has been much scrutiny of the former claim, the latter claim has received very little attention. In this paper, I will explore whether and how ...
