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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.
- 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...
Mar 18, 2017 · We think we die because God plays hide-and-seek with himself. But we never die; we just fall back into the wave of God. Alan Watts' book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are is an ...
Unfortunately, death having a purpose does not automatically give meaning to life. And if life turns out to be meaningless, then death, even if it were evolutionarily valuable, would also be meaningless. We have simply removed some common misconceptions regarding death and its effect on the meaning of life.
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 ...
May 22, 2002 · This article considers several questions concerning the philosophy of death. First, it discusses what it is to be alive. This topic arises because to die is roughly to lose one’s life. The second topic is the nature of death, and how it bears on the persistence of organisms and persons. The third topic is the harm thesis, the claim that death ...
Oct 26, 2007 · One possible inference—that the boundaries of death are vague—would partially merge this approach with the previous one, which construed death as a process. We have noted that one response to the claim of vague boundaries (the response favored in the previous approach) is to embrace several lines, each for a different purpose, in ...
