- Your death is indistinguishable from the end of the world. As far as you are concerned, the world ends.
- The Western notion of eternal sensory deprivation - and awareness of that sensory deprivation during death - is an illusion. Think: before your current incarnation in the flesh as a Homo Sapien - do you remember an eternal sensory deprivation experience before this life? No, although you were technically “dead”, from the perspective of your current experience (as it relates to your ego - your ego was dead).
- I was searching frantically with EGO, and FOR EGO - that small part of your psyche, that minute fraction of your totality which identifies as a stream of memories from childhood to the present moment. When you are stuck in this illusion, and think that it is “you”, you will almost surely be fearful of death. You will want to cling on to all your memories, good and bad. For outside of that, what is there? Nothing...right?
- The wish to reincarnate your memory system is simply an infantilized wish of the ego. You are not your memories; yet you identify with them, and want them to “reincarnate”.
- In the West, people are often uncomfortable when they’re confronted by disease and death. In the end, they often simply avoid visiting their sick friends. That’s something Laura Hillenbrand experienced with her chronic fatigue syndrome. Those closest to her withdrew and left her isolated. That, of course, is the very worst thing you can do if you have a sick friend. So remember, if you want to help someone you love recover, make sure to visit them as often as you can!
- Fear of death is the fear of loss - losing everything we accumulated such as wealth and relationships. We are therefore not afraid of the unknown. We are afraid of losing the known.
- Memento moto - remember you are going to die. It’s a great way to remember to live.
- I suppose it’s possible I’ll lie on my deathbed regretting that I didn’t work harder, write more and say everything I had to say, but I think what I’ll really wish is that I could have one more drink, talk or good laugh with friends or loved ones.
- If we could know death while we are living it wouldn’t be a problem anymore. We fear it because we can’t experience this unknown. Is it possible to experience death? Is it possible to end all our memories? Our past and self? Become nothing? And everything at the same time?
- We want to make life last but what lasts can not be renewed. Nothing new or creative can come alive out of a lasting state. It is by ending, by dying that we can experience the new.
- Only in death can we know about life.