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“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”

Happens Form Suffering Opportunity Realizing Loss Dying Essence Who You Are Identification Great Loss Approaching Death

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.”

“When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

Matter Culture Loss Dying Significant Manners Gentle Consideration Minors Riot Politeness Exhibits Rudeness Bad Manners Consideration For Others

Book:Friday

Source: Friday

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”

Ifs Years Loss Dying Dog Died Misery Sorry Fifty Pet Pet Dog Dog Love Pet Loss Inspirational Dog Dog Loss Dog Grief Pet Grief Faithful Dogs Dogs Dying Dog Died

Author:Walter Scott

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

Death Loss Dying Failure Garden Series Triumph Gardening Gardener Impermanence Garden Love Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal