Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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