To live fully, we cannot remain blind to the important parts of life. We must make peace with Death.
Death is a wonder we must examine. Death is as intimate as birth, and must be a shared experience.
Death is part of the right to life and happiness.
Hazards of Immortality; Death speaks:
There was a merchant in Baghdad, who sent his servant to market to buy provisions, and in a little
while the servant came back white and trembling, and said, " Master, just now when I was in the
market place, I was jostled by a women in the crowd, and when I turned I saw it was Death that
jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now lend me your horse, and I will
ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra, and there Death will not find me"
The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks
and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.
Then the merchant went down to the market place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he
came to me and said, " why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when yo saw him
this morning?" " That was not a threatening gesture," I said. "It was only a start of surprise.
I was astonished to see him i Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him to-night in Samarra.
John O' Hara.
Fear of Death, is no more or less than fear of life. Death is the unknown, and to fear the
unknown is only to fear what you have learned from life.
That is what immortality would be, life without risk or fear. It would feel like Death.
Without Death life would have no worth or meaning. The polarity to life is not death:
it is immortality. Hold nothing back, go all the way with life accepting that this is life,
and by its very definition, it means that we must die. The cause of death, is life!
You cannot have one without the other.
To be, or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
and by opposing,end them. To die- to sleep,
No more...... Shakespeare Hamlet.
Seeker; "What is the grand scheme of life?"
Wise man: "You're born, you live, and you die."
Seeker: "You call that a scheme?"
Wise man: "Actually, most of the scheming comes
in during the middle part." John Hart.
Love conquers all. Virgil, Eclogues.
I don't know anybody who can contemplate death
and hum a tune at the same time. Woody Allen.
Death is Natures way of telling you
it is time to slow down.
And now I see with eye serene
the very pulse of the machine. Wordsworth, "She was a phantom of delight."
For everything there is a season, and a time
for every matter under the Heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die,a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.
A time to kill, and a time to heal, A time to break down, and a time to build up.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together.
A time to embrace,and a time to refrain from embracing.
A time to seek, and a time to lose, A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to to sew, A time to keep silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace.
What gain has the worker from his toil? Ecclesiastes 3; 1-9
No wind favors him, who has no destined port. Montaigne essays.
Death may not be funny, but it is not the end of the world
B ud Blitzer.
This too, shall pass; To live and die with grace.
We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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