Montaigne on the art of living and the folly of fearing death https://t.co/TIpmFpA1lH pic.twitter.com/t0yJoa0tds
— Maria Popova (@brainpicker) July 16, 2016
Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve. There is nothing evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that the privation of life is no evil: to know, how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. —Michel de Montaigne
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see also die before you die
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To be or not to be is not the question. There is only being. There is only what is, all of it, the whole.
The countless forms that being takes come into existence, exist for a while, and then no longer exist.
That is one view.
In another view, that anything exists as an entity apart from the whole – even for a moment – is in the mind.
In this view, nothing depends on nothing; nothing does not change; nothing exists apart from the interdependent web of all existence.
That there is any independent being that comes into existence, exists for a while, and then no longer exists is an illusion.
- all being is nothing but change
- no being is independent of any being
see also UU principles*