"It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."
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"Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes."
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"Just like probably nowhere is more Life than in the world of Death, where its entire being rests on Life. If it hadnât been for Death, then there wouldnât be Life either, and as Life feeds Death, is possible that Death in return would feed Life at the cosmic lunch of the human feelings."
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""Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that."Cake or death?""Eh, cake please.""Very well! Give him cake!""Oh, thanks very much. It's very nice.""You! Cake or death?"Uh, cake for me, too, please.""Very well! Give him cake, too! We're gonna run out of cake at this rate. You! Cake or death?""Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry...""You said death first, uh-uh, death first!""Well, I meant cake!""Oh, all right. You're lucky I'm Church of England!" Cake or death?""
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"If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs."
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A disciple of Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda was the chief spokesman for Vendanta, which had societies popping up throughout America and Europe through the 1930s. Born in 1863, Vivekananda's best-known work was "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda," which was a collection of his lectures, letters and poems. During his lifetime he was an in-demand speaker throughout Europe and the United States and represented Hinduism at the first World Parliament of Religions that was held in Chicago in 1893. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Order in India in 1898, shortly after his first tour …
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