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Dying Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche
- This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
- Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.
- Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it…
- Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death…
- We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever…
- Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents…
- At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful…
- Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively…
- I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He…
- There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing…
- If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what…
- For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result…
- This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the…
- At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are…
- Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat…
- When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense…
More Dying Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter