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Death Deconstructed
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? –Mary Oliver
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Friday, December 28, 2018
listen
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.
As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body.The wise are not deluded by these changes.
–The Bhagavad Gita
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
The Almanac of Last Things
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From the almanac of last things
I choose the spider lily
for the grace of its brief
blossom, though I myself
fear brevity,
but I choose The Song of Songs
because the flesh
of those pomegranates
has survived
all the frost of dogma.
I choose January with its chill
lessons of patience and despair–and
August, too sun-struck for lessons.
I choose a thimbleful of red wine
to make my heart race,
then another to help me
sleep. From the almanac
of last things I choose you,
as I have done before.
And I choose evening
because the light clinging
to the window
is at its most reflective
just as it is ready
to go out.
–Linda Pastan
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018
how to grow old
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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
–Bertrand Russell
Portraits from Memory and Other Essays
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Sunday, December 23, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
This World is not Conclusion (373)
A Species stands beyond -Invisible, as Music -But positive, as Sound -It beckons, and it baffles -Philosophy, don't know -And through a Riddle, at the last -Sagacity, must go -To guess it, puzzles scholars -To gain it, Men have borneContempt of GenerationsAnd Crucifixion, shown -Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies -Blushes, if any see -Plucks at a twig of Evidence -And asks a Vane, the way -Much Gesture, from the Pulpit -Strong Hallelujahs roll -Narcotics cannot still the ToothThat nibbles at the soul -
–Emily Dickinson
this world is not a conclusion
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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