I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
Florynce KennedyRead
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Interpretation
Embracing death can provide a new perspective on life and rest.
Florynce Kennedy's quote suggests that rather than fearing death, we should consider it as a natural part of life that offers us a final rest. It challenges the common aversion to death by framing it as an opportunity for peace, inviting us to reflect on our relationship with mortality and the value of life.
In practice
During a discussion about the fear of aging, one might use this quote to encourage a more positive outlook.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
The world remains ever the same.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
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