Big Ideas tagged with "Death"
- Robert T. Kiyosaki: Fear (Again)
- Dan Millman: Wake Up!
- Deepak Chopra: Lose Your Fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ask Yourself: What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?
- John Eliot, Ph.D.: Eat Stress Like an Energy Bar
- Viktor Frankl: Your Attitude
- Joseph Campbell: Jump!
- David Joseph Schwartz: Action Cures Fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Cowards & God
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fear & Learning
- Lao-tzu: Soft & Supple
- Joseph Campbell: Shedding Skin
- Dan Millman: Change
- Leo Buscaglia: Cuddle
- Anthony de Mello: Coffins
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: God's Work & Cowards
- Houdini’s Work
- Dan Millman: Absolute Vulnerability
- Another Opportunity to Learn
- Gay Hendricks: Five Wishes
- Carlos Castaneda: Death As an Advisor
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
~ Confucius quotes from The Analects
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.
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A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power
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A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality
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A warrior-hunter knows that his death is waiting, and the very act he is performing now may well be his last battle on earth. He calls it a battle because it is a struggle. Most people move from act to act without any struggle or thought. A warrior-hunter, on the contrary, assesses every act; and since he has intimate knowledge of his death, he proceeds judiciously, as if every act were his last battle. Only a fool would fail to notice advantage a warrior-hunter has over his fellow men. A warrior-hunter gives his last battle its due respect. It's only natural that his last act on earth should be the best of himself. It's pleasurable that way. It dulls the edge of his fright.
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm's length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he's about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, I haven't touched you yet.'"
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love
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Don't let your throat tighten with fear. Take sips of breath all day and night, before death closes your mouth.
~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.
~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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...Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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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.
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As it is with a play, so it is with life—what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.
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"Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it—the fear of it."
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
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