Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
Why should I fear death?_x000D_ If I am, then death is not._x000D_ If Death is, then I am not._x000D_ Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?_x000D_ Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear._x000D_ Religious tyranny did domineer._x000D_ At length the mighty one of Greece_x000D_ Began to assent the liberty of man.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not happened. We have not known the ecstasy which life is; we have not known the bliss life is; we have not known anything. We have just been breathing in and out. We have been just existing. Life has been just a hope and death is coming near. And if life has not yet happened and death happens before it, of course, obviously, we will be afraid because we would not like to die.
If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In the first place there is nobody at all, existence lives through you.
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
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