The appreciation of death and the spiritual journey
after death is the prerequisite for living life joyfully now.
Death does not have to be treated as an enemy for you
to delight in life. Keeping death present in your conscious-
ness as one of the great mysteries and as the moment
of incredible transformation umbues this moment
with added richness and energy that otherwise is
used up in denial. I encourage you to make peace
with death, to see it as the culminating adventure
of this adventure called life. It is not an error.
It is not a failure. It is taking off a tight shoe
that you have worn well. The way that is understood
in the morning, one can gladly die in the evening.
after death is the prerequisite for living life joyfully now.
Death does not have to be treated as an enemy for you
to delight in life. Keeping death present in your conscious-
ness as one of the great mysteries and as the moment
of incredible transformation umbues this moment
with added richness and energy that otherwise is
used up in denial. I encourage you to make peace
with death, to see it as the culminating adventure
of this adventure called life. It is not an error.
It is not a failure. It is taking off a tight shoe
that you have worn well. The way that is understood
in the morning, one can gladly die in the evening.
Ram Dass
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