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"I have seen several deaths, too many deaths in my life, and they were all different. Each one was different. It didn't seem to be necessarily connected with the life of the person. Some people that were not particularly developed or outstanding or spiritual died very easily. Some other people were on a very high level and had a difficult time in dying."
"I think that, at least in my experience, it is difficult when there is unfinished work. That makes it difficult to think of dying when what you have to do is not quite done. Of course it's never quite done."
"L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died."
"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."
"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change."
"Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition."
"I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying."
"But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy."
"It is natural to die as to be born."
"HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it."
"If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again."
"The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct."
"There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen."
"The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time."
"Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old."
"I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world."
"You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his."
"Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die."
"Prophets have a way of dying by violence."
"Dying is such a waste of good health."
