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Death is a natural part of life’s cycle and is nothing to fear. Bodies disappear and become something else, memories fade, and even those who remember you will soon be gone too. That is nature, so don’t be against it; welcome it. There is nothing wrong with death, only your opinion about it. Billions, if not trillions of things die every day, that's nature. That's life.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. - maybe one of you out there knows who said that famous quote.. throw it in the comments if you do.
If you go into every day with the mind set that it may be your last, you won't waste the day away. you'll make the most of it. Which is better - a life of boring days where you think you have plenty of time or a life filled with meaning and excitement because you have a mindset that it could end at any time?
If you think you are nothing more than this particular life, this particular ego, then you're under an illusion. you are not separate from the universe - you are the universe. As Eckhart Tolle says, you are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. Or as Alan Watts said, you are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself - mind blowing!! The universe is intelligent - you didn't come into the universe as this separate thing... you came out of the universe. Think of it this way.. a plant doesn't come into the world, it comes out of the world. the world created it. You are just like that. you essentially grew out of the universe as it evolved. it took 13 billion years, but here you are.
Every atom in your body was once inside of a star - you are literally made of star stuff. you are the universe, a piece of it.. you are not some separate thing that is alien to it. you are it... but our ego tricks us into thinking we are separate. Ok, i'll stop there because i can go on and on.. but if you like where i'm going with this, please check out my videos on Alan Watts.
It is my belief then that death is not the "end". We don't know what it is, therefore, some of us fear it. consciousness lives on in some form or another. Even if you don't believe this.. .think about it this way, if you died, so would your consciousness.. the annihilation of consciousness cannot be experienced! therefore there really is nothing to fear whatsoever!
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