Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him
is not at home - Sir Francis Bacon
Death is nothing to do with going away, the sun sets, the moon sets
but they are not gone - Rumi
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses and to die is different from what
anyone supposed and luckier! - Walt Whitman - A song to my self.
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean - David Searls
We are all just walking eachother home - Ram Dass
Take care of the end as you do with the beginning - Lao Tze - Tao Te Ching
In times of grief and sorrow flowers bloom even then - Japanese Poet
* Seashells remind us that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind.....
* The beautiful void is rumbling. All your loved ones will die, or change or leave you - Your mother, your father, intimate lovers, your teachers, your students. Or you will change, or evolve, or lose your memory, or the body's sytems will collapse. All external sources will collapse. All external sources of happiness are subject to the laws of impermanance. This is only 'depressing' or 'negative' from the point of view of the ego, which thrives on attachment and posession and clings to people and objects and substances for its survival. The ego always needs time, and makes time into an enemy or the ultimate addiction.
But from the perspective of who you really are, the uncontrollabilty of things, the unpredictability of others, the beautiful fragility of relationship is not an enemy but an invitation to awaken. We may not have tomorrow, but we have now-Now is everything. And so we are pulled forever into gratitude, broken apart on the alter of fearless love, meeting in the place we can never be broken. Here, Now.
is not at home - Sir Francis Bacon
Death is nothing to do with going away, the sun sets, the moon sets
but they are not gone - Rumi
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses and to die is different from what
anyone supposed and luckier! - Walt Whitman - A song to my self.
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean - David Searls
We are all just walking eachother home - Ram Dass
Take care of the end as you do with the beginning - Lao Tze - Tao Te Ching
In times of grief and sorrow flowers bloom even then - Japanese Poet
* Seashells remind us that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind.....
* The beautiful void is rumbling. All your loved ones will die, or change or leave you - Your mother, your father, intimate lovers, your teachers, your students. Or you will change, or evolve, or lose your memory, or the body's sytems will collapse. All external sources will collapse. All external sources of happiness are subject to the laws of impermanance. This is only 'depressing' or 'negative' from the point of view of the ego, which thrives on attachment and posession and clings to people and objects and substances for its survival. The ego always needs time, and makes time into an enemy or the ultimate addiction.
But from the perspective of who you really are, the uncontrollabilty of things, the unpredictability of others, the beautiful fragility of relationship is not an enemy but an invitation to awaken. We may not have tomorrow, but we have now-Now is everything. And so we are pulled forever into gratitude, broken apart on the alter of fearless love, meeting in the place we can never be broken. Here, Now.