Arsenius, 6.38b “If you are able to give thanks, don’t tarry, but give it—since you know that things are not everlasting.” Δυνάμενος χαρίζεσθαι, μὴ βράδυνε, ἀλλὰ δίδου, ἐπιστάμενος μὴ εἶναι τὰ πράγματα μόνιμα. Arsenius, 6.95c “Humans have greater thanks for the unexpected” ᾿Εκ τῶν ἀέλπτων ἡ χάρις μείζων βροτοῖς Arsenius 8.42p “Just like food for […]
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou […]
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it. Michel de Montaigne
Lagniappe: Memento mori Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. principal doctrines – No. 2 Nothing is enough to someone for whom what is enough is too little. Vatican Sayings – No. 68 Of all the […]
Not just external cleaning, internal, too. Send thoughts away.
There is no time like the present: there is no time but the present.
On the anniversary of my birth, a reminder that I die.
Abandon oneself in the ecstasy of love-death (Liebestod). Compare: Living, love and death are one, moving and indivisible, and that is immortal. Krishnamurti
The ultimate meditation: If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that—at a time not too distant—each one of us will simply cease to be. It won’t be like going into darkness forever, for there will be neither darkness, nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone […]
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