Allowing Quote by Ram Dass

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be…

— Ram Dass

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is…

— Daisaku Ikeda

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

— Paulo Coelho

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves…

— Joan Halifax

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether…

— Gilda Radner

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if…

— Albert Schweitzer

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness…

— Theodor Fontane

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

— Rob Bell

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

— Yasmin Mogahed

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are…

— Aldous Huxley

“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“may die today’ is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to…

— Kelsang Gyatso