Fear Of Death Quotes
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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise (Fear Of Death Quotes)
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten (Fear Of Death Quotes)
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash (Fear Of Death Quotes)
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable (Fear Of Death Quotes)
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came (Fear Of Death Quotes)
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type (Fear Of Death Quotes)
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge (Fear Of Death Quotes)
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world’s sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example (Fear Of Death Quotes)
I have made a lot of mistakes. But I’ve worked hard. I have no fear of death. More important, I don’t fear life (Fear Of Death Quotes)
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear (Fear Of Death Quotes)
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived (Fear Of Death Quotes)
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason (Fear Of Death Quotes)
More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy! (Fear Of Death Quotes)
I don’t think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience (Fear Of Death Quotes)
I don’t think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person’s existence (Fear Of Death Quotes)
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety (Fear Of Death Quotes)
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution (Fear Of Death Quotes)