fear-of-death

Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the law of love, but on the other hand what we love dies. That is why this is one of the realms of suffering. This world is not a heaven. This is not a place of fulfillment. Thus, we must yield to the true Condition. We must not become dependent upon the conventional aspect of our relations. We must recognize our relations. We must identify with the Condition of the loved one.You must become established in the real Condition, or you will never be satisfied. You will be driven to all kinds of preoccupations and great schemes, trying to become victorious or immortal, for immortality's own sake, simply because you cannot deal with the fact of death. But death is an absolute message in this realm. It obligates us to recognize or identify one another in Truth, and we are not relieved of that obligation in this place.

I don__ need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. __t__ the closest I__e ever felt to dying.

The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I__ not forced to comply anymore. The key people in my life did reject me for telling the truth about my abuse, but I__ not alone. Even if the consequence for telling the truth is rejection from everyone I know, that__ not the same death threat that it was when I was a child. I__ a self-sufficient adult and abandonment no longer means the end of my life.

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

When we overcome the fear of death, we become deathless, endless, and infinite.

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living

In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it__ struggle, it__ ugly, it__ horrific, it__ dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

We die a day at a time

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor

An old Celtic proverb boldly places death right at the center of life. __eath is the middle of a long life,_ they used to say. Ancient people did things like that; they put death at the center instead of casting it out of sight and leaving such an important subject until the last possible moment. Of course, they lived close to nature and couldn__ help but see how the forest grew from fallen trees and how death seemed to replenish life from fallen members. Only the unwise and the overly fearful think that death is the blind enemy of life.

Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live.

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.