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THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH BY DEAD PEOPLE BEFORE THEY DIED
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FROM THE PREFACES TO THE BOOK 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD: A DEAD PERSON’S GUIDE TO LIVING —
“I wonder if I could have been here before? As I drive up the Roman road the theater seems familiar. Perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road… I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the Middle Ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and We will be.”
— General George S. Patton
“Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.”
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange eons even Death may die.”
— H.P. Lovecraft
A BEST FRIEND
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The older my body gets (almost 70) I become more aware of the ancient adage: “Life is short”. Indeed, it seems so. What is a single lifetime in the order of the cosmos? Less than a blink of an eye . Through eternity there is only one companion, as far as I know. Yourself. If we find being alone difficult, without friends, we may have a very long time to endure existence without others to keep us distracted from ourselves in the “great beyond”, whatever that may be. So, being our own best friend makes good sense.
WHEN I DIE…
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JEWEL and LOTUS
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Jewel within the Lotus
Phallus and the Womb,
United we are, both of us,
The Source of Life Anew.
We are really No-Things
Beings joined with Form:
Animating Matter
The Cause of all that grows.
All creation springs from Love,
Heaven joins the Earth:
We are Souls united with the Flesh,
Death is joined with Life.
I am like Air.
You are like Fire.
A hearth is made in Our embrace.
Our loins the fuel, our kiss the spark,
We fan the Flame with Our desire.
Rising smoke from each caress,
Our Love the heat, Our Joy reflects
That through Our Seed, Our Souls are met:
through Our Cause we are Effect.
One reaches,
One withdraws.
Positive flows to negative,
In and out and ebb and flow
Are rhythms of this Universe.
One is born;
One grows old.
Life and Death are a single thread –
Binding Souls within the flesh
We can escape this slavish strife:
Awake! Fly! Be Your Immortal Soul!
We can transcend the Game of Life –
Create A Universe of Your Own!
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— Lawrence R. Spencer —