The powerful sense of self born of identifying with any state of psychological suffering is a form of death... disguising itself as life!
To know what you will possess after all that you have loved passes – as it must – look no further than how your "love" passes with the conditions that lend it its life. The foolish love foolishly, and suffer a fool’s fate. Be wise; choose each moment to remember the one Love that neither ends . . . nor ever forgets you.
It is impossible to know anything about the true nature of immortality as long as we continue to live with the fear of death.
In this life, death is inevitable; but living in fear of it... is not...
The "death" of what lives in the dark of you is the same as the birth of a new order of yourself that is no longer afraid of the dark.
Death releases us from the physical conditions manifested by our present nature, but not from the consciousness of this nature and those relationships inherent in its level of being.
The young should be teaching the old... that the heart need never stop dancing, as the old should be teaching the young... there’s nothing to fear about death.
It is from out of one's unconscious fear of death that comes the frustration, pain, and inevitable sense of regret born of trying to steal a feeling of being alive.
Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns... until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.
Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns... until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.
I have a sixteen year old dog that just lost the use of his back legs and is starting to suffer from it. Do we have the authority over life and death of animals? I know we kill and eat animals and put them down, I just never had to do it before, and I feel as though I am doing it to lift the burden of taking care of him off myself. I thought he would pass naturally, but he just won't. (From st...