This site shares Life-affirming meditations
that heal misconception about Death.
Living beautifully and dying beautifully,
Embrace Death as Birth
into limitless Life Awareness.
Life is tragic
simply because the earth turns,
and the sun inexorably rises and sets,
and one day, for each of us,
the sun will go down for the last, last time.
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble,
the human trouble,
is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives,
will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses,
blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races,
armies, flags, nations,
in order to deny the fact of death,
which is the only fact we have.
James Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time
DEATH is an acronym...
Departing Earth Arriving True Home..
Cynthia Clayton
Death in the morning,
at evening another birth –
this is the way of things,
no different from the bubbles on the stream.
Kenko & Chomei
Essays in Idleness
At the moment of death,
when the human being goes through the portal of death,
he sees numerous hindering, malevolent forces approaching him.
These forces, however,
are usually drawn near through the fear of death.
The greater the fear of death,
the stronger their power is.
Fear has always been a cause of anxiety at the moment of death.
When, however, the dying person is aware
that fear cannot change anything
about the dying process that he has to go through,
these forces and powers appear like desiccated bags.
The human being can only gain victory over the fear of death
and bravely face it if he knows
that in him is an immortal, eternal inner core
for whom death is only a metamorphosis of life,
a change of life form.
As soon as the human being
discovers his immortal inner core through spiritual science,
he learns more and more how to overcome anxiety
and in the long run all fear of death disappears as well.
The more materialistic a person is however,
all the more will he fear death.
Rudolf Steiner
If we are afraid of death
it is because we have not understood
that things do not really die.
Thich Nhat Hanh
No Death, No Fear
Is death to be understood
as within, or outside of, human life?
It is said, often enough,
that death is a "part of life."
But what does that phrase, almost a cliche, mean?
It has been explored much less than it should be.
That exploration inexorably leads
to perhaps the most troubling problem of all—
how we are to find meaning in death,
if there is any meaning to be found.
Daniel Callahan
The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death
Death is only apparent absence of life,
otherwise there is no such thing.
The word only indicates the absence of the presence of life.
To think of death as such is senseless.
There can never be any such presence,
for phenomenally it is only an absence.
'Life' is a concept extended in space-time,
and as such it is only an image in mind.
Conceptually also it is the absence of 'death'
which-as we have seen-is the absence of 'life'.
Evidently, therefore, there is no such factuality as 'life',
nor any such factuality as 'death'.
Nor can there be any factual entity
such as a 'liv-er' of life
or a 'dy-er' of death.
Wei Wu Wei
Posthumous Pieces
At death on your plane
the ego merely changes the focus of its awareness.
Jane Roberts
The Early Sessions: Book 3 of The Seth Material
During that period you refer to as old age,
once again emotionally and psychologically
the individual is less bound by physical time.
He no longer, that is the whole self no longer,
makes available sufficient psychic energy
for the maintenance of the physical organism.
The main focus of the whole self
has already begun to stray,
and the energies
used in necessary pattern organization for the physical plane
are already being returned,
taken from their attention to physical matters,
and becoming more attuned to the whole self
from which they were originally delegated.
Jane Roberts
The Early Sessions: Book 3 of The Seth Material
Each present moment of your experience
is dependent upon the future as well as the past,
your death as well as your birth.
Your birth and your death are built in, so to speak,
together, one implied in the other.
You could not die
unless you were the kind of creature who was born,
nor could you have a present moment as you consider it.
Your body is aware of the fact of its death at birth,
and of its birth at its death,
for all of its possibilities for action
take place in the area between.
Death is therefore as creative as birth,
and as necessary for action and consciousness, in your terms.
Jane Roberts
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression
According to Seth,
each case of senility is different,
but generally speaking,
the personality transfers the vital parts of consciousness
into the next area of existence,
and is often fully aware there, and functioning.
Gradually the personality’s mental focus leaves this life
and begins to operate entirely on another level.
The physical disease—the hardening of the arteries—
is caused by the personality’s gradual refusal
to accept new physical stimuli,
thus avoiding physical experience
(either purposefully or through error).
People who are terrified of physical death might take this path,
since when physical death occurs,
consciousness is already acquainted with its new environment
and the organism’s death is relatively meaningless.
In any case, the individual’s inner decision
causes the physical symptoms,
not the other way around.
Jane Roberts
The Seth Material
You exist in time,
but you belong to eternity.
You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time.
You are deathless,
living in a body of death.
Your consciousness knows no death, no birth.
It is only your body that is born and dies.
But you are not aware of your consciousness;
you are not conscious of your consciousness.
OSHO
It hurts my heart to know
that so many people feel frightened
as they approach their time of passing into the next world,
to say nothing of when they are in this one.
Life was meant to be a constant joy,
and death is a time of even greater joy,
when it would be wonderful
if all people could know
only peace,
and happy anticipation
Neale Donald Walsch
Home With God
Birth is not a beginning;
death is not an end
Chuang Tzu
The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death;
the modern man’s worst fear is just death.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes:
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
If, at the time of death, death inquires of you,
“Would you like to live your life,
the same life that you have lived, one time more?”
What do you think your answer is going to be?
Only a man who has really lived intensively and totally
and who has not been lukewarm and tepid,
who has burned his life’s torch at both ends together,
will be ready to go through life again
because he knows he can change everything that has been.
He can find new spaces,
he can find new mountains to climb,
he can find new stars to reach,
he can trust in himself.
He knows his courage
and he knows that to live dangerously
is the only way to live.
Osho
In Love with Life:
Reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra
Wherever you are,
however you try to deceive yourself,
you are standing at an abyss.
All your consolations are false.
All your defenses are just imaginary.
Are you not standing at an abyss each moment of your life? –
because the next moment can be your death,
and that is the greatest abyss.
The more you are a seer,
the more you see the abysses around you.
All seeing is seeing of the abysses.
But also, if you want to see the summits of your being
you will have to see the abysses.
Osho
In Love with Life:
Reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra
When one leaves his body in awareness consciously,
he can easily set the future course for the life within.
One who can witness this moment of transition
gets to glimpse and perceive life
in ways that might not otherwise be available to him.
As this transition is like a twilight zone,
you get to view it being away from both life and death.
The various yogic practices are designed and structured
to bring about this profound glimpse.
It is for this purpose that in many cultures of the world
the last moment of life or the moment of death
is considered very important.
Cheryl Simone
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic
Hōnen once said,
‘If you are certain of entering paradise at death,
your rebirth there is certain.
If you are in doubt,
your rebirth will be likewise.’
Chomei and Kenko
Essays in Idleness
There is a deep contradiction
in failing to enjoy life
and yet fearing death when faced with it.
It is because they have no fear of death
that people fail to enjoy life –
no, not that they don’t fear it,
but rather they forget its nearness.
Of course, it must be said
that the ultimate gain lies
in transcending the relative world
with its distinction between life and death.
Chomei and Kenko
Essays in Idleness
You cannot have a happy ending to a journey
that has not been pleasant along the way.
The end absolutely does not justify the means.
The means, or the path along the way,
always brings about the essence of an identical ending.
Abraham-Hicks
Our selfish grief and demands
often cause much pain and sorrow
to our loved ones who have passed over to the other side,
unless they have learned the true state of affairs
before they have passed out,
and refuse to be called back
even by those whom they love.
We should avoid delaying by our selfish demands
the progress of those who have passed on,
—let them sleep on and rest,
awaiting the hour of their transformation.
To do otherwise,
is to make them die their death several times in succession—
those who truly love and understand always avoid this,
for their love and understanding
bids them let the soul depart in peace
and take its well earned rest and gain its full development.
This period of soul-slumber
is like the existence of the babe in the mother’s womb—
it sleeps that it may awaken into life and strength.”
Yogi Ramacharaka
The Life Beyond Death
Let the soul speak for itself,
and you will find that its song will ring forth
clearly, strongly, and gloriously:
“There is no Death; there is no Death;
there is no Death;
there is naught but Life,
and that Life is Life Everlasting!”
Such is the song of the soul.
Listen for it in the Silence,
for there alone can its vibrations reach your eager ears.
It is the Song of Life ever denying Death.
There is no Death—
there is naught but Life Everlasting,
forever,
and forever,
and forever.
Yogi Ramacharaka
The Life Beyond Death
When one is able to leave the physical body behind,
and actually travel in the regions of “the other side,”
as in the case of many advanced individuals,
any purely speculative discussions or arguments
on the reality of “life after death”
take on the appearance of dity and futility.
As all philosophy teaches us,
the world of the inner is far more real
than is the world of the outer phenomena.
In fact, man has no actual knowledge of the outer—
all he has is the report of the inner
upon the impressions received from the outer.
Yogi Ramacharaka
The Life Beyond Death
Go with the conviction
that you are not the bodily self,
that you are beyond births and deaths,
that you are dynamic,
being dynamism itself
and are apparently experienced
only as pure and simple awareness.
Roy Melvyn
The Essential Nisargadatta
You are That which stands prior to the subject object nexus,
That which existed before birth
continues Its existence after death.
The greatness of the Self
lies in the fact that It cannot be found.
It cloaks Itself in 'me'.
Roy Melvyn
Life Never Dies
He who knows how to live can walk abroad
Without fear of rhinoceros or tiger.
He will not be wounded in battle.
For in him rhinoceroses can find no place to thrust their horn,
Tigers no place to use their claws,
And weapons no place to pierce.
Why is this so?
Because he has no place for death to enter.
TAO TE CHING
It doesn’t matter how long you live.
What matters is that you really live,
but from the deepest you know the truth of,
until it’s all done.
For you to really live,
let your death, whenever that is going to be,
very sweetly occupy a little part of your heart.
The light of that goodness
will deeply inspire you in your living.
You’ll not live as though everything is going to last,
and you’ll relate to meaning in everything.
You’ll be that which doesn’t pass away i
n the midst of everything
that you know
is not going to last.
John de Ruiter
Unveiling Reality
You will be just fine after you die,
and for sure you’re going to die.
You have no real reason to be afraid of dying.
You’re not afraid of leaving everything behind
and entering what you cannot really comprehend;
you do it each time you go to sleep.
It’s a little bit like dying.
Everything starts to fade out.
When you lie down to go to sleep,
your day is the first to fade away.
As your day passes away,
your person passes away.
Your self remains and,
as you become quieted in your self,
your self begins to pass away,
how you relate to your self passes away
and you’re resting in your heart.
There’s not much there anymore,
but it’s really good.
As you continue to relate more deeply,
deeper than your own heart,
you fall asleep.
What you are deeply familiar within this is goodness.
What comes after you being awake in your body
is you falling asleep in your body.
Goodness doesn’t diminish
and what you really are doesn’t diminish.
You come through it all in the next day
and you start anew.
That’s all very similar to what dying is like.
What there is before
and what there is after.
John de Ruiter
Unveiling Reality
We are with those whom we have lost in material form,
and far, far nearer to them now
than when they were alive.
And it is not only in the fancy of the Devachan,
as some may imagine,
but in reality.
For pure divine love
is not merely the blossom of a human heart,
but has its roots in eternity.
Spiritual holy love is immortal,
and Karma brings sooner or later
all those who loved each other with such a spiritual affection
to incarnate once more in the same family group.
Annie Besant
Death-- And After?
When the grim reaper comes to get me,
he’ll have to give me a few extra hours
to revise my last words.
Flannery O'Connor
Howard had died in an armchair
in an upstairs bedroom of the Hollywood Hills second home
they’d owned since 1977,
with Gore (Vidal) and their live-in nurse by Howard’s side.
“Although there was no breath for speech,”
as Gore later recalled the moment,
“he now had a sort of wry wise guy from the Bronx expression on his face
which said clearly to me who knew all his expressions,
‘So this is the big fucking deal everyone goes on about.’”
Matt Kapp
The Hard-Crusted Softy In Winter
Air Mail
Most people shrug their shoulders and say,
“We come from nothing and we return to nothing—
and that’s the end of it.”
But I demur.
For it strikes me as utterly amazing
that I did in fact come from this nothing.
If I came from it once,
I see no reason why I could not come from it again;
for if, as is indeed the case,
I did come from it once,
this nothingness is, to say the least,
unexplainably frisky.
Alan Watts
Cloud-hidden,
Whereabouts Unknown
Some of the students realized
that the sensation of dying
could be reinterpreted ecstatically as total self-release.
As a result, death became an occasion
for congratulations and rejoicing.
After all, “You only die once” (as the slogan went),
and if death is as proper and natural as birth,
it is absurd not to make the most of it.
Alan Watts
Cloud-hidden,
Whereabouts Unknown
When I stand by the stream and watch it,
I am relatively still,
and the flowing water makes a path across my memory
so that I realize its transience
in comparison with my stability.
This is, of course, an illusion
in the sense that I, too, am in flow
and likewise have no final destination—
for can anyone imagine finality as a form of life?
My death will be the disappearance
of a particular pattern in the water.
Alan Watts
Cloud-hidden,
Whereabouts Unknown
It is only after a great awakening
that we know all this is a great dream.
Fools, by their own accord,
consider themselves to be awake,
and go about in a knowingly fussy way,
defining one man as a gentleman,
and another as a rustic.
How hardheaded is this!
Confucius and you are both dreaming.
And I, who tell you that you are dreaming,
am dreaming, too.
Even these words themselves
may be called a great deception.
William Scott Wilson
The One Taste of Truth:
Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea
The old must die away
for the new to come into being.
But it cannot simply be replaced
by something already known,
no matter how illustrious or well tested.
Rather, something new must be created.
Rudolf Steiner
Anthroposophy in Everyday Life
What happens at the moment of death?
After death,
the etheric body, the astral body and the Ego of man
have left the physical body.
The corpse alone
remains in the physical world.
A short time after death
the etheric and astral bodies unite.
The etheric body imprints in the astral body
the memory of the life just passed;
then the etheric body slowly dissolves
and the astral body passes alone
into the astral world.
Rudolf Steiner
The Essential Rudolf Steiner
What abode awaits my soul
on its release from the laws of slavery among men?
And what is death?
It is either the end, or a process of change.
I have no fear of ceasing to exist;
it is the same as not having begun.
Nor do I shrink from changing into another state,
because I shall, under no conditions,
be as cramped as I am now.
Farewell
Seneca:
Letters from a Stoic
"Think on death,"
or rather, if you prefer the phrase,
on "migration to heaven."
The meaning is clear, —
that it is a wonderful thing to learn thoroughly how to die.
You may deem it superfluous
to learn a text that can be used only once;
but that is just the reason
why we ought to think on a thing.
When we can never prove
whether we really know a thing,
we must always be learning it.
"Think on death."
In saying this, he bids us think on freedom.
He who has learned to die has unlearned slavery;
he is above any external power,
or, at any rate, he is beyond it.
What terrors have prisons and bonds and bars for him?
His way out is clear.
There is only one chain which binds us to life,
and that is the love of life.
The chain may not be cast off,
but it may be rubbed away,
so that, when necessity shall demand,
nothing may retard or hinder us
from being ready to do at once
that which at some time we are bound to do.
Farewell.
Seneca:
Letters from a Stoic
One who is enjoying the heavenly rest after death,
is so entirely secluded within the world of his own thought
that nothing outside of that can affect him,
and he is consequently absolutely safe.
Thus is justified the grand old description of the heaven-world
as the place "where the wicked cease from troubling,
and the weary are at rest."
Charles Leadbeater
The Devachanic Plane or The Heaven World
Its Characteristics and Inhabitants
The sunlight ranges over the universe,
and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body,
and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration;
at Death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight,
and are nearer to the reality.
Short are the twilight periods,
and long the periods of the sunlight;
but in our blinded state we call the twilight life,
and to us it is the real existence,
while we call the sunlight Death,
and shiver at the thought of passing into it.
Annie Besant
Death-- And After?
“Would you say, don Juan,
that death is the only real enemy we have?”
“No,” he said with conviction.
“Death is not an enemy,
although it appears to be.
Death is not our destroyer,
although we think it is.”
“What is it, then, if not our destroyer?” I asked.
“Sorcerers say death is the only worthy opponent we have,” he replied.
“Death is our challenger.
We are born to take that challenge, average men or sorcerers.
Sorcerers know about it; average men do not.”
“I personally would say, don Juan,
life, not death, is the challenge.”
“Life is the process by means of which death challenges us,” he said.
“Death is the active force.
Life is the arena.
And in that arena there are only two contenders at any time:
oneself and death.”
Carlos Castaneda
Power of Silence
Ancient Egyptians used to read the Book of the Dead
to learn practical tips on how to navigate the underworld—
like how to not have your head cut off in the underworld,
or how to take the form of a crocodile in the underworld,
or how to not enter the underworld upside down—
but we don’t have a Book of the Dead.
Katie Roiphe
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
I had a death threat,
I'll get to it.
Andy Warhol
Pat Hackett
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Death is a wedding feast,
and the secret of that
is that God is one.
Sunlight comes in through the windows
and gets reflected around the room.
Then the windows are closed.
Individual grapes become one dark wine.
For someone who lives in the light of God,
death is nourishment.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi
Think of how PHENOMENA come trooping
out of the desert of non-existence
into this materiality.
Morning and night,
they arrive in a long line
and take over from each other,
“It’s my turn now. Get out!”
A son comes of age,
and the father packs up.
This place of phenomena
is a wide exchange of highways,
with everything going
all sorts of different ways.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi
You did not create this life.
So you should not talk about ending it
unless your identity as a separate being or a separate person
has disappeared and you and the Source of Creation are the same.
If you come to that point of evolution,
then you can throw away your body consciously.
You are allowed to do it.
But you are not allowed to do it
by damaging the body or by hanging from a tree.
Once you are dead,
we don’t mind burying you under the tree,
but hanging from a tree
is neither good for you, nor for the tree.
Moreover,
whether life has been a good deal or a bad deal,
if you have a larger purpose,
everything is a stepping stone
for your ultimate well-being.
Sadhguru
DEATH
An Inside Story
From what we’ve seen at the end of life,
the saying that “there are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t quite true.
There are plenty of faithless and undecided
who find peace close to death.
And plenty of faithful who do not.
The difference seems to be
in how practiced a person is
in bumping up against
what he can’t necessarily command or comprehend.
BJ. Miller, Shoshana Berger
A Beginner's Guide to the End:
Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
If you tell someone today:
‘If you do not want to miss out on immortality
then you must activate your soul energies
so that you yourself can pass as an active soul
through the gates of death’—
he will not understand you.
The status quo has got him thoroughly out of the habit
of applying his understanding to such matters.
Instead, he has been told that he need only believe in Christ
and in what the state does.
So he knows that first of all
the state will take care of his needs,
and when he has worked long enough
the state will give him a pension.
And the church goes a step further;
it offers a person, after his death,
a pension for his soul,
so that he does not need to work on his soul during life
nor do anything himself
when his soul passes through the gate of death.
Rudolf Steiner
Guardian Angels
(Connecting with Our Spiritual Guides and Helpers)
Man is to-day a living Soul,
over whom Death has no power,
and the key of the prison-house of the body
is in his own hands,
so that he may learn its use if he will.
It is because his true Self,
while blinded by the body,
has lost touch with other Selves,
that Death has been a gulf instead of a gateway
between embodied and disembodied Souls.
Annie Besant
Death-- And After?
The student’s physical death
is an entirely different event
from the death as he knew it formerly.
He experiences death consciously
by laying aside the physical body
as one discards a garment that is worn out
or perhaps rendered useless through a sudden rent.
Thus his physical death is of special importance
only for those living with him,
whose perception is still restricted
to the world of the senses.
For them the student dies;
but for himself nothing of importance
is changed in his whole environment.
The entire supersensible world
stood open to him before his death,
and it is this same world
that now confronts him after death.
Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment
And then a Word sounds forth.
The descended, radiating point of light ascends,
responsive to the dimly heard recalling note,
attracted to its emanating source.
This man calls death
and this the soul calls life.
Alice A. Bailey
Esoteric Healing
Comment: The point of living is dying.
Krishnamurti: No, sir. That has been said and achieved by so many people;
clever people have written about all this.
They have said that life has no meaning,
and therefore we must give life a significance.
Death has no meaning,
and therefore it must have another significance.
This is what man has done throughout the centuries, sir.
We are saying quite the contrary—
that one cannot find the fullness of life,
the depth of life if there is fear,
and to end fear is also to understand death.
J. Krishamurti
The Beauty of Death
People fail to relate death and sleep.
Death, after all,
is only a longer interval
in the life of physical plane functioning;
one has only “gone abroad” for a longer period.
Alice A. Bailey
A Treatise On White Magic
We can wander further into the death dystopia,
denying that we will die
and hiding dead bodies from our sight.
Making that choice
means we will continue to be terrified
and ignorant of death,
and the huge role it plays
in how we live our lives.
Let us instead reclaim our mortality,
writing our own Ars Moriendi for the modern world
with bold, fearless strokes.
Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Really, what is life about?
You get sick and die.
That’s it.
So you’ve just got to keep busy.
Andy Warhol
Pat Hackett
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Death is essentially a matter of consciousness.
We are conscious one moment on the physical plane,
and a moment later
we have withdrawn onto another plane
and are actively conscious there.
Alice A. Bailey
A Treatise On White Magic
“I’m still having a relationship with him
but it is just not a physical relationship anymore.
If you have ever had anybody go who you have loved,
you do feel in communication with them
because you feel so deeply in your heart
that if you say a prayer, it goes straight to them.
I have a lot of joy because I know it’s OK.
This physical world is not the end by any means.
It’s just another place you pass through.
I don’t just believe that, I know it.
And the sooner one comes to terms with that,
the easier it is,
rather than feeling George has gone
and is never coming back."
Olivia Harrsion
George Harrison's Wife
In the later stages of life,
we have the crystallization of the form,
and the man’s realization of its inadequacy.
Then comes the happy release which we call death,
that great moment in which the “spirit in prison”
escapes from the confining walls of its physical form.
Alice A. Bailey
The Consciousness of the Atom
Death comes to the individual man,
in the ordinary sense of the term,
when the will-to-live in a physical body goes
and the will-to-abstract takes its place.
This we call death.
Alice A. Bailey
Death: The Great Adventur
I know that without me
God can no moment live;
Were I to die, then
He No longer could survive.
I am as great as God,
And He is small like me;
He cannot be above,
Nor I below Him be.
Angelus Silesius
Christian Mystic
1624-1677
Regardless of the state of their physical bodies,
there was never any pain felt
while floating in this observer position
separated from their bodies.
Even those who were struck by lightning
or hit by a train, for instance,
had no sensation other than weightlessness,
freedom from the confines of their dense physical body,
and a deep sense of inner peace.
Most people who have experienced these near-death experiences
admit that they felt so absolutely wonderful
while out of their body
that they did not want to return to it.
That’s how blissful it feels
to leave our bodies
and exist in spiritual form.
Bob Olson
Answers about the Afterlife:
A Private Investigator's 15-Year Research
Unlocks the Mysteries of Life after Death
Those who, afraid of the sufferings
arising from the discrimination of birth-and-death (samsara),
seek for Nirvana,
do not know that birth-and-death and Nirvana
are not to be separated from one another;
and, seeing that all things subject to discrimination
have no (absolute) reality,
(they) imagine that Nirvana consists
in the future annihilation of the senses and their fields.
Alan Watts
The Supreme Identity
People come to me and ask,
“What will happen after death?”
I don’t answer them;
I ask them another question instead.
I ask them, “Forget all about after death,
let me ask you one thing:
“What is happening before death?”
Because whatsoever is happening before death
will continue to happen after death.
It is a continuum:
your consciousness will be the same –
before or after will not make any difference. T
he body may not be the same,
the container may change,
but the content will remain the same.
Whatsoever happens is happening to the content,
not to the container.
Osho
The Goose Is Out: Zen in Action
According to the orthodox Christian view,
Death is a separation,
and the "spirits of the dead" wait for reunion
until those they love also pass through Death's gateway,
or--according to some--until after the judgment-day is over.
As against this the Esoteric Philosophy
teaches that Death cannot touch
the higher consciousness of man,
and that it can only separate those
who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned;
the man living on earth, blinded by matter,
feels separated from those who have passed onwards,
but the Devachan, says H.P. Blavatsky, has a complete conviction
"that there is no such thing as Death at all",
having left behind it
all those vehicles over which Death has power.
Therefore, to its less blinded eyes,
its beloved are still with it;
for it, the veil of matter that separates
has been torn away.
Annie Besant
Death-- And After?
When man recognises his own inherent nature,
he learns to open his prison doors occasionally
and escapes from his encircling jail
and rises above the body and its passions
into a pure mental and moral life;
then he learns that the conquered body
cannot hold him prisoner,
and he unlocks its door
and steps out into the sunshine of his true life.
So when Death unlocks the door for him,
he knows the country into which he emerges,
having trodden its ways at his own will.
And at last he grows to recognise
that fact of supreme importance,
that "Life" has nothing to do with body
and with this material plane;
that Life is his conscious existence,
unbroken, unbreakable,
and that the brief interludes in that Life,
during which he sojourns on Earth,
are but a minute fraction of his conscious existence,
and a fraction, moreover,
during which he is less alive,
because of the heavy coverings
which weigh him down.
Annie Besant
Death-- And After?
The same humanitarian impulse
which animates the workers for birth control,
namely, that children may be properly born,
extends to the end of life as well,
so that we desire
that human beings in great suffering
may have an easy death.
Dr. Charles Potter
founder
Euthanasia Society of America
Those opponents of euthanasia
who claim that a sufferer is only a coward
if he or she wishes to end his life,
forget that most such sufferers
are much more concerned
about the anguish they are causing their dear ones
than they are about their own pain.
Dr. Charles Potter
founder
Euthanasia Society of America
The river of being flows
between two banks of nothingnesses.
Being is beautiful,
but non-being is also beautiful.
Life is good,
but death is also good,
because life cannot exist without death.
Ordinarily you think that death is against life,
that it destroys.
No, you are wrong.
Without death life cannot exist for a single moment.
Death supports life.
Death is life's very base.
Because you can die,
that’s why you can live.
Life and death are not two things
but two wings –
two wings of the same phenomenon.
Osho
Absolute Tao
The deepest core of being is non-being.
The foundation of isness is nothingness.
And when I say nothingness I don’t mean nothing-ness.
I only mean no-thingness.
Form exists on the base of the formless.
The form comes out of the formless
just as waves come out of the sea,
and then the form drops,
dissolves into the formless again.
The name arises out of the nameless,
falls back, returns to the original source,
becomes nameless again.
Life arises out of death
and moves to death again.
The very basic thing to remember
is that these opposites are not opposites,
they are complementary.
Death is not against life,
nonexistence is not against existence,
non-being is not against being.
They are two polarities of the same phenomenon,
which transcends all understanding.
Osho.
Absolute Tao
Everything “above” this formless awareness
that is born into the world of form
(the substrate and psyche)
and that therefore lives in the world of space and time,
will die.
If you identify with these formed aspects of your relative self,
you will suffer in direct proportion
to that level of identification
when those aspects inevitably decay and disappear.
But if you realize the formless nature of your being,
you will transcend death.
Andrew Holecek
Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life
Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
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