learning to die

 

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A person who does not know how to die does not know how to live, and vice versa. You should learn to die—to die immediately. This is a practice.

Are your ready to die now? Are you ready to arrange your schedule in such a way that you could die in peace tonight? That may be a challenge, but that’s the practice. If you don’t do this, you will always be tormented by regret.

… We should never forget that dying is as important as living.


—Thich Nhat Hanh 
You Are Here (2009, pp. 116, 131)

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