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death
Every human death feels unnatural. Even the peaceful passing of elderly relatives who’ve lived rich lives and completed the full circuit of experiences we all feel entitled to—work, marriage, children, vacations, holidays—are attended by a grief so massive that it slips our processes of rational cognition. It hits us obliquely, and never chronologi... See more
Scott Beauchamp • The Problem of Force | The Point Magazine
Wallace Stevens wrote in “Sunday Morning”:
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
–M.N.
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day
and think it is forever.
(Carl Sagan)
Mortality
Prashanth Narayan and • 3 cards
No one will care or remember how successful or disastrous your business is, or how hard you worked, or what your MMR was, or how much money you raised. The number one deathbed regret is working too hard and not spending enough time with family and friends. So don’t blow your life away trying to escape it by working on your business. Keep going as l... See more
charles • Tweet
Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected
Sogyal Rinpoje
"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)