“Death is a stripping away of all that
is not you.
The secret of life is to die before you
die – and find that there is no death.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
WINTER SOLTICE REFLECTIONS …
As the daylight
reduces I find myself getting more reflective. I have thought on death and
dying off and on for sometime, as I want to diminish my fear of the inevitable
next stage of Life.
I had a shockingly
delightful breakthrough insight the other day. It pierced the fear and often
invisible cultural discourse we live inside of:
“What if the
experience of death was a relief, but not only a relief but Beautiful? Joyful?!?!
That moment was
freeing … as I now have access to the possibility of a joyful passing, a
dropping of the body that could be, not a loss, but an extraordinary expansion.
What if, culturally, we lived into that possibility …
