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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 ...
- Natural — Death Is A Natural Part of Life’S Cycle of Development.
- Wholeness — The Paradox Is That Death Makes Life whole.
- Just Visiting — You Are Just A Visitor on Earth.
- Purpose — Living Deeply and Fully Could Simply Be called Living purposefully.
- Know Thyself — Have Awareness of Your Essence and Know yourself.
- Today — A Single Day Is A Fractal Version of A Full lifetime.
- Unbusyness — Busyness Is One of The Biggest Distractions from Living.
- Presence — Life only Ever Exists in The Present moment.
- Beyond Death — Contemplate What May Happen After death.
“There is a certain limit to the appropriate length of any time in this world. Just as the fruits and vegetables are limited by the seasons of the year, everything should have its beginning, its life, and its ending, after which it should pass away. Wise people willingly submit to this order.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero 1. “Death is very likely the si...
“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 1. “Death is not the opposite of life.Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life...
“Who brought me into this world? According to whose command do I find myself at this exact place, during this particular time? Life is the remembrance of a very short day we spent visiting this world.” — Blaise Pascal 1. “Remember, you do not live in the world, you only pass through it.” — Leo Tolstoy 2. “We are not human beings having a spiritual ...
“Your life may be cut short at any time; therefore, your life should have a deep purpose, a significance that will not depend on whether it is short or long.” — Leo Tolstoy 1. “It is bad not to have something for which you are ready to die.” — Leo Tolstoy 2. “Everyone has a gift to share with the world, something that both lights you on fire intern...
#1 Regret of the Dying:“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” — Bronnie Ware 1. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ and find that there is no death.” — Eckhart Tolle 2. “Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’...
“The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn’t think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for s...
“No one will bring back the years; no one will restore you to yourself. Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course. It will cause no commotion to remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly. It will not lengthen itself for a king’s command or a people’s favour. As it started out on its first day,...
“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.” — Marcus Aurelius 1. “At any time each of the moments of which life consists is dying … that moment will never recur. And yet is not this transitoriness a reminder t...
“The gift we receive on the inner journey is the knowledge that death finally comes to everything—and yet death does not have the final word.By allowing something to die when its time is due, we create the conditions under which new life can emerge.” — Parker Palmer 1. “The recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension o...
Jun 20, 2023 · Ontological confrontation, facing the inevitability of death, can help build meaning and well-being in life. Anticipating death can provide the organizing principles for how we conduct ourselves ...
Jun 12, 2019 · It keeps society and the living cycle going. Death can act as a refresher for humanity and the natural world as a whole. Not only has life benefitted from death in terms of evolution and sustenance, but it also allows for new ideas and trends. It makes space for new tendencies, new systems, new adventures, new inventions, and ultimately, for ...
Nov 1, 2021 · Death is standing. It’s standing in the way liquid stands still in a container. Sometimes cooking instructions tell you to boil a mixture and then let it stand, while you complete another part of the recipe. That’s the way death is in the poem: standing, waiting for you to get farther along with whatever you are doing.
It is genuinely true, as Nichiren says, that "now is the last moment of one’s life." 2 President Toda also said: "In truth, we practice Buddhism for the time of our death." Nothing is more certain than death. That’s why it is vital to immediately set ourselves to the task of accumulating the treasures of the heart that will endure for eternity.
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Dec 29, 2014 · What is the relationship between death and meaning?Death is variously said to: render life meaningless; detract from life’s meaning; add to life’s meaning; render life meaningful. Death has always been inevitable, but the idea that science will eventually conquer death has taken root—achieved through some combination of future ...
