Key Lesson: Most people are so afraid of dying they are unable to see that agreeing to identify with any imagined state of self is itself a form of death unfolding in slow motion.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how grief over the death of a loved one will complete itself and become something else if we will not resist the experience and allow it to be what it is.

Life wants us to know the meaning of it. It is an innate urge in us to know the meaning of our life, and it is right before us in the mirror of the present moment.

In this life, death is inevitable; but living in fear of it... is not. And though it is a paradox, to be sure, to see that we live as “prisoners” of our own imagined fears reveals the unimaginable possibility of making the leap into a new, and higher level of being that never dies.

For us, death -- even as we "learn to live" in its fearsome shadow -- seems to mark the end of all that we have known; a looming "last show" when the theatre will be closed, and the final curtain drawn. But, there is another kind of death...

Classroom Talk: 04/20/2025 - The life and death of the Christ did not happen two-thousand years ago, any more than the rising and setting of the sun belongs to a particular place and time. Seen, or not, the life of Christ is always now…as is His sacrifice for the sake of the continuing perfection of the human Soul.

The moment perceived can't change until the one perceiving the moment changes, and the perceiver can only change, truly change, by cessation...since any other change in him is simply a reconfiguration of his own present content. But this ending, this death of self, is not death but the rebirth of another level of self.

Part 1 By love we overcome death, for death is an act of love... not the end of it. Part 2 Realizing one's spiritual helplessness never tastes good, nor does it ever go down easy; but, if our wish is to eat the Bread of Life, we must not turn away from the table set before us.

I can't speak to you of life without speaking to you of death; not the death we fear, but the fear we have of it. For to live in fear is to die in slow motion...

Whatever it may be within us that fears death... is itself the thing that must die.

Most people are so afraid of dying they are unable to see that agreeing to identify with any imagined state of self is itself a form of death unfolding in slow motion...

There can be no "life after death" without realizing an order of Love that has no fear of dying...