death

When I interviewed Andrea Gibson last year, they shared a line that they loved from a poem by Saul Williams: “only believers in death will die.” When I asked what they took that line to mean, Andrea said: “I don't think that what's real can die. I don't think consciousness can die. And I don't believe love can die. I don't know if there's anything... See more

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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

(Federico García Lorca)

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Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected

Sogyal Rinpoje

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(1) Remember that Life and Death live on the same side of the same coin. Death is not idly waiting for us at the end of our journeys—no, it is always with us in the lives we lead now. Being acutely aware of this allows us to reflect on what really matters, and keeps us open to the new perspectives that Life has in store for us.

Lawrence Yeo • Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day

and think it is forever.

(Carl Sagan)

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"The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”

(Khalil Gibran)

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"When death finds you, may it find you alive."

-African proverb

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