One must totally die to find what love is. And to go into this question of what is death, what lies beyond death, whether there is reincarnation, whether there is resurrection, you follow, all that, becomes rather meaningless if you don’ t know how to live. If the human being knows how to live in this world without conflict then death has quite a different meaning.
– J Krishnamurti
For sure:
Without death, no life. Without death, no love. Although we consider It the ultimate Evil, Death may be highest good. The secret door to renewal. I won’t say let’s die now – it may be too harsh on our Ego – I will simply say, let’s renew ourselves…
Neither Heraclitus, Plato or Socrates or whoever great man, can help and guide us through this tremendous undertaking: psychological Death. Each of us is on his own to find out.
Indeed…
Death: the cessation of direction, of memory, of thought, of ideal…
“Are you aware of the significance of your words here?” – he asked.
To die is an act of totality. Even “significance” has to go, if we are to take on this huge challenge.
Man´s worst fear, is the loss of his identity, which equates the loss of his ubiquitous “significance”…Significance – meaning belief, meaning psychological security…Nobody wants to risk and jeopardize the Supreme Sense we have built through Millennia…- the very Idea of who or what we think we are…
We do not therefore fear Death, but – of course – the cessation of our ideas and projections, about what we term as Life and Death…
As long as we take “Love” as an outcome of our all too human projection, we will neither live nor love.
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Dare to speak up
2012/06/17 Leave a comment
“Speak up so that I know who you are”, said Socrates.
I would say:
Let´s dialogue so we can find out who we are! Really, mirroring one another through genuine and transparent dialogue opens unthought of opportunities. Two, three words can make huge difference. We all need to follow and be followed with the right kind of attention.
I will continue writing with or without comments. It is not necessarily me you´re giving something if you comment “my” posts. It is indeed a great chance for you to take a few moments and reciprocate the unknown part of yourself talking to me.
Vivid attention and loving dialogue is a blessing. We all need this, the world today thirst for this.
Dare. The words you say, you say to yourself.
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