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Spiritual Initiation, Darkness and Rebirth | Gigi Young
youtube.comThe deathbed now feels like the birth bed felt then. Like the universe is taking in a big inhale, recalibrating, and exhaling a new reality.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
We tend to think of death as a life-eliminating event rather than a life-editing process. Instead of thinking of it as a subtractive tool necessary for growth, we believe it to be a definitive event that ends everything.
Lawrence Yeo • Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That
The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death — and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies. Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun
... See moreEckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
For others, however, death in life can be regarded as an achievement, the result of a spiritual discipline, say, intended to extinguish all traces of struggle with the world, a liberation from the need for any title whatsoever. “Die before ye die,” declare the Sufi mystics.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent.