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When one existentially awakens from within,
the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the
former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at
the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life
itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially
from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment. - Masao Abe
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of
death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so
much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to
soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our
children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective
rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer. - Irvin D. Yalom
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