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Prashanth Narayan and • 3 cards
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day
and think it is forever.
(Carl Sagan)
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.
Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected
Sogyal Rinpoje
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
(Federico García Lorca)
