Aphorisms - Death

It is the dying to opinions and impressions, the dying to the habit of reaction, that is so painful in truth.

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You fear death because you perceive it will take all your power, position, possessions – everything you imagine you are.

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What makes you strive so hard, and why do you keep going, when you're already under sentence of death?

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Life after death is not life after death, it is a continuation of the stupidity and limitation of our current life. That's no good; who wants that?

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Death is the space before and after life. There is more space than matter, more death than life, more silence than noise.

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Man has many deaths but only one life.

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In death you lose nothing but your ignorance.

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As the false is destroyed you come alive.

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Death is death. There is nothing like it.

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Never has there been a moment when you knew you did not exist.

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. . . you can't remember death.

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You, the person who assumes a past and future with all its problems, memories, fears, ambitions, likes and dislikes, wants and ideals, die with the body and are never seen or heard from again.


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Re-incarnation is a doctrinal falsehood, a reasonable attempt to give integrity to the continued existence of ignorance as a way of life.

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Re-incarnation is the doctrine of ignorance playing for time in the future so that it won't have to face up to being true to life in the present.

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The end of yourself is the end of the world, for you never ever return again. Only ignorance returns, and if you're ignorant, you won't know that you've returned.

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The future is only a device of the living for trying to put off facing the idea of death now.

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When death removes the future all the strain goes out of the present.

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Death is merely the other side of life; it is familiar, intimately known by every one of us, in its benignant essence.

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Death, ...., is merely the unknown. The unknown is only tomorrow and that is not enough to create our dread of death – otherwise we would all be running around hysterically morbid at our inescapable fate. In fact we see through death now and do not realise it. It is as harmless as that. No one at the moment of dying fears death; most welcome it. To all, it is the most natural thing in the world. The sad thing at the moment of dying is that the living do not understand.

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In a world where man must die there can be no hope – apart from the delusive hope that he will not die.

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Of all the species only man has to live with the intolerable self-imposed concept of life with death at the end.

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If I should ever see my body dead then I cannot be dead. If I never see my body dead then death is an assumption.

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Death is your future.


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Even if you die you make it.

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You can never understand death, man and woman. Because understanding is of the thing that dies. And that which dies cannot understand death.

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Death is never what you think it is.

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Death exists only for the living, the living ignorance that must die. When the ignorance dies, life is - and you feel and know you are re-born.

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All life that dies on earth survives in the psyche.

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