Death quotes by Sadhguru
if you are going to make people around you joyful and relieved only when you die, that’s not a good way to live.
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Death is the last thing you do in your life, shouldn't you do it gracefully?
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Before you and I came here on this planet, a countless number of people have walked on this planet, where are they? All topsoil. You will also be topsoil unless someone buries you real deep fearing you may rise from the dead
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Dying Gracefully: The way people are dying in western countries is really a horrible way to die, Let us learn to die gracefully. It is okay if you die two years early, you die peacefully & gracefully, that's more important.
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If you are conscious that you are mortal, would have time to crib? would you have time to fight with somebody? would you have time to do some rubbish with your life? If you are conscious that you are mortal, you would do nothing other than what is absolutely need for you & everybody around you
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The very body that you carry right now, it has been millions of bodies in the past.. the soil going through every form of life
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We must learnt to accept death as a part of life, we are not wishing death, but when it comes, let us learn to go through it gracefully.
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If your doctor told you that you are going to die tomorrow, that you can't live for more then 24 hours, you will see you will transform yourself so rapidly; minute to minute you will change. So don't wait for your doctor to tell you something horrible (change by yourself)
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There is no such a thing as Death, Death is a fiction of the unaware, there is just Life, Life and Life moving from one dimension to another
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Death is not a negative thing, death is the only thing that has added value to your life. If you were here forever, you would be unbearable
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People think teenage is problem, middle age is problem, old age is problem. What is not the problem? Only death.
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Life + Death quotes ⇑
Life Quotes
Unless you embrace death, you cannot live, if you try to avoid death, all that will happen to you is that you will end up avoiding life.
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Life & death can be handled gracefully. If you remind yourself all the time that, "I am mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal, I'm mortal", you will see, mind will uncomplicate itself
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You are an undertaker. Your business is with the dead. All the time your life is about what is over. Everything that you are is about what is already over. So because you are an undertaker you will live in a certain jumpy condition.
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Every day, every moment if you remind yourself this is a brief life, "I'm mortal, one day I will end." just do this for 2 days & see, you will become something truly fantastic within yourself
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If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave
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At the end of your life it's only about what you have created. Whatever you have gathered, you can't take it with you
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The dead can be preserved, life cannot be preserved, it has to be expended as intensely as possible
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An absolutely inevitable aspect of life is Death, but it still remains largely unaddressed within oneself in most Humans. It is the natural consequence of Death that makes life sparkle brightly. We are alive just for a while but Dead for a very long time
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The unfortunate reality is that most people will know peace only with death- "Rest in Peace". It is time we do something about it in life
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It is only when you become aware of death that you want to know what life is about. Once you come to terms with death and you are conscious that you will die, you will want to make every moment of your life as beautiful as possible.
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People who live a very full fledged life, If they lived very joyfully, with huge sense of ecstasy about life, when the time of death comes, they will leave much more gracefully than those who have not lived a total life. People who are having a bad life should be wanting to go, but that is not the truth
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However dear something may be to you, including your own body and life, you must know how to let it go gracefully when the time comes.
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Death is the only certainty in life. If you lived your life well, death is not at all a bad thing
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when we initiate people something comes alive a little bit, people are jumpy what's happening. You are coming alive, you've been dead for a long time. This is called raising the dead
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I'll bless you with a long life but you're going to fall dead one day (So do not take this for granted, pay some attention to this life)Life Short One liners Perspective
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Suppose tomorrow you lost half your money and you’re feeling depressed and your mind says I want to die. Close your mouth, hold your nose closed for two minutes, your body says to hell with your money, I want to live. the most important thing that’s happening in your life right now is that you’re alive, nothing else
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If we live as better human beings, wonderful for us, wonderful for everybody around us. Suppose we die, at least there is no regret- "what a horrible creature I am and I'm dying"
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If you have not found anything beyond the physical, when the moment of death comes, terror is the only way; you have no other choice
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The only real wealth you can carry through life and death is profoundness of experience.
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Birth and death are just passages where life is moving from one phase to another.
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Funny + Death quotes ⇑
Funny Quotes
You will see Shiva always sitting in the graveyard to tell you it is your mortality which makes you, If want to know what is the nature of your existence, You really want to know where you came from, where you will go only when it sinks into you, all this drama, one day it will end but right now you think only others appear in obituary columns & you read em
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A whole lot of people are carrying grave faces as if they are practicing the final posture. Time we work towards life, not death. Because when it comes to death, everybody is a Natural Star.
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What you call as “myself” is just a pop-up on this planet and it will pop out one day
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The moment you are born, you have a death sentence upon you. When, where and how is the only question. Your death is confirmed.
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Most people go about their lives as if death is not going to happen to them
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Don't be dead serious about your life. Seriousness will bring the quality of Death while alive.
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Short Quotes
Death is a cosmic joke. If you get the joke, falling on the other side will be wonderful
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Death is a tremendous relief; it is just that it should not happen untimely.
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If you seek perfection, unconsciously you will seek death. Don't seek perfection in life.
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When you shed your body you don't have intellect and discretion; you just function by your tendencies
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Death is something that happens only once in our lives. It is important that we conduct it well.
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The only reason why people have such a fear of death is they know nothing beyond the body.
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If you live joyfully until the last moment, you don't have to worry about death - that will also be a joyful process.
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Religion is the Opium because it puts people to sleep. Sleep is comfortable, nothing wrong with it, Death is even more comfortable (but there is no progress in it)
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One who is constantly reminded of his mortality, at least has created a fertile ground for his knowing, may be he doesn't know it yet, but he has the fertile ground for his knowing
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If you're just conscious of your mortality you will naturally become spiritual. You will not become spiritual by thinking about God. You will become unrealistic, hallucinatory.God Spirituality Consciousness
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If you are not willing to be vulnerable, you are not willing to transform. Whatever does not transform is as good as dead.Change Philosophy Wisdom Willingness
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There is no such thing as perfection in life. There is only one thing that happens perfectly, and that is death
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If you die of excitement, it's all right. Such a magnificent creation and you die of boredom - that's a crime
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Eating, sleeping, reproducing, dying - every other species does it effortlessly. Why do human beings make such a fuss about it?
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The body is a loan from this planet. If you have done something wonderful out of this, when the time comes to pay back, you will pay joyfully
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If you go after what's easy the next thing will be sleep and then death.Inspirational Short Success Truth
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This body is a loan you have taken from the planet. If I give you $1 million today, & in 10 years' time you have made it into $100 million, when I come looking for you, you'd welcome me & give me back my million. If you've done something truly wonderful out of yourself, when the moment to pay back the loan (body) comes, you'd give back joyfully
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From your birth till the last moment, you are walking in a straight line, straight towards death, you may look this way at the mountains, you may look that way at the lake, you may look at relationships, you may fall in love, you may suffer, you may enjoy, but essentially every moment of your life, you are walking straight towards your grave
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If you have found something beyond the physical, death is not an issue. If all you know is only physical, then it is a big issue because it is the end of everything that you know.
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If death comes to us, we will do everything possible to save ourselves but if it goes beyond that, let us learn to die gracefully. Let's not fight with it endlessly. Just stretching it one more month and one more month does not make any sense.
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Only when you remind yourself of your death, you will turn spiritual. If you think of God, fantasies will come in your mind. No spirituality will come
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Only when you become conscious, only when you are reminded of your own death, you will become a seeker. When you think God, you are not a seeker. You are just looking for more foolish nonsense in your life. Only when you think death, you turn spiritual, you seek.
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With every breath, we are one step closer to the grave. Now is the time to explore a dimension beyond body and mind
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A human being never realizes the nature of who he or she is unless mortality is hanging in their face
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I am conscious of every moment that passes by, and I know how many more moments are there – they are not limitless, but limited. I want you to count your own, how many more you have.
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Psychological realities however big they may be, they will collapse in a moment, when the time of death comes, your thought & emotions will mean nothing, existentially what have you done to this being is what matters
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life is pretty simple. Birth is not in your hands; you’re just born and you have to just die one day, really. Is anybody else making anything else compulsory for you? Is anything else compulsory? Birth is compulsory, death is compulsory – in between whatever the hell you want
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Om Yogic way of Leaving body: If you had a choice that you could die the way you want to die, would you like to leave in any of these ways or consciously? Because it's the last act that you perform in your life and you get to do it only once. You may get married four times but you can only die once. So, you must do it in style
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The reason dead bodies were openly cremated in Manikarnika, in the heart of Kashi, was to bring people to terms with Death, because Ignorance rules a society that hides Death
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Manikarnika, the Maha Smashana at the heart of Kashi. A profound wisdom of handling life and death as one. Cremation, a grand process for which every-body is a customer some day
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With technology, we have taken death into our hands. It's time to take birth too in our hands & address irresponsible reproduction, one of the biggest challenges of our times, to save the planet
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Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation
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If you are constantly aware of your mortal nature, you will only do what truly matters to you
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From earth we seep, and shall seep back to earth, in between, if restfulness is your mode of action, blessed you are, blessed you are
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Nothing is predetermined – not even death. Everything has been created by you, though mostly unconsciously
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As life is, death is. The awareness of this fact allows you to live life fully and intensely.
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Divorce is a voluntary death - you have decided to kill something that is a part of you, in some way.
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When you live, people will enjoy living with you. When you die, they will miss you. That's how you should live
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why is fear a virtue? religions of the world have put fear into you about everything, about life and death.
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Death is not a separate entity, Right now you are living, we can also say- actually you're dying right now, one day the process of death will be complete.
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If you're not touched by life, you're a dying life. You're not a living life.
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It is only in the awareness of the inevitable nature of Death that you will bite deeper into the fruit of life
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Death & that which is beyond it isn't a secret that's hiding somewhere in heaven or hell - it's right here, right now
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As long as the experience of life seems so real, you cannot believe it is all going to be over just like that
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If you have lived your life with grace, it becomes extremely important that you die with grace
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If life happens, death is a natural process. Being afraid of a natural process is unnatural
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The effervescent one will transcend the Inertia of Death. Deathless is he who knows Effervescence without purpose
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Killing any life unnecessarily, for pleasure or to splurge, is definitely a crime.
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For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.
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Death happens slowly. The withdrawal of the life process from this lump of earth - the body - happens step-by-step
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The Dynamism of Life and the Stillness of Death are needed to be complete. Living Death is the nature of Existence
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This whole fear about death is simply because you have no idea about what it is. You have formed ideas about everything, just about everything, but no matter what ideas you have formed about life, when you are confronted with the moment of death, you really don't know anything.
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What you call as "my body" is something that you have gathered, what is the big deal about giving it back? you are making it such a big deal because you are so identified with the things you have gathered, you have become that. This is the essence of ignorance.
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What you call as death is just the transition of Life which has to happen
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People have generated so much negativity about death as if it were something unnatural. Death is not an unnatural thing, it is a natural progression of life
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[About Death] People try to avoid it, or people try to celebrate it. You don't have to avoid it, you don't have to celebrate it. If you are just aware of it, it liberates you
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Of the billions of people who have passed through this planet, only a few can give back the soil they picked up from mother earth gracefully back to her (during death)
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If you do not pass in the eyes of the Creator, all the other distinctions that you may attain are just empty stuff, it will not stand by you When the time to shed this coil, when the time to put earth back into earth comes, it will not stand by you, for sure
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This body is the loan you take form the planet, when the time to repay the loan comes, because most people have made nothing of it except thinking rubbish, their psychological realities will collapse
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Death essentially means your time is up, Fear is always about time, if we had limitless amount of time, it wouldn't matter
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If you just manage to live to complete seven solar cycles and one-thousand-and-eight lunar cycles, then you can break a certain bond with the earth. Your bond with the planet is broken largely. And very easily, with very little assistance, even if you know nothing about anything, with very little assistance, you can go beyond the cycles of birth and death
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Suppose you and me die tomorrow morning, are we dying as a little better human beings than what we were a year ago - this is an important question. If we live, wonderful! Suppose we die, there’s no regret. Very important or not?
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As we have responsibilities towards the living, we have responsibilities towards the dead. Within a limited period of time after Death, there is room for impacting the Dead.
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The Mahashmashana at Manikarnika Ghat in Kashi is not glorification of death or the dead, but a mechanism to make people conscious of Mortality, the most fundamental reality of human existence
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This fatal disease (Cancer) has caused some of the most painful lives & deaths on the planet, leaving a significant part of humanity crippled & distraught. May Cancer prevention be given equal importance
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Just as right to live, right to die with dignity is also a fundamental human right. A huge empowerment. Must be exercised responsibly.
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As you live consciously, you can also die consciously. It is possible
for a human being to do this.
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Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.
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If in the very process of life, you know the relaxation of death, then life is an utterly effortless process
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If you have moved from life to death, it is time to get back to life. Death will come anyway - don't hurry it up
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Body is a perishable item with an expiry date. Birth being a fatal ailment, no one escapes the release of Death
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Death is the baseline of life. If you do not understand death, you will never know life, nor can you handle life.
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If you can maintain your awareness in the moment of transition from the physical to the beyond, you can attain (liberation)Spirituality Liberation Awareness Mysticism
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Do not waste your time trying to think what happens beyond death, because that is not the realm of your mind.
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Almost 90% of the people in this world die with some disturbance, suffering and struggle. Very few people die peacefully and even fewer people die joyfully and extremely few people die blissfully
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If you gain enough mastery over yourself and determine the nature of your experience of life, you can also largely determine when and how you shall die
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Life & Death is the same thing. In a dynamic state we call it Life, in a state of inertia we call it Death
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Each individual is a mix of Effervescence and Inertia, or a combination of Life and Death.
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If you say death is negative, then what is positive? Immortality? Even an idiot like Alexander had the intelligence to not choose immortality. Yoga is not about eternal life, Yoga is about sensible life.
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Once you are existentially here, that is your experience of life is beyond the limitations of your physical body, thought process and mind, then living and dying are not that different
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Society becomes civilized only when there shall be no persecution in terms of Death, torture or imprisonment for criticizing a leader, religion or historical figure or a book. Global establishment of this fundamental is Civilization
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