I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace.... Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.
Stephen Levine
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How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
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Death is perfectly safe. (55)
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Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)
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[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
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