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Living With Death

To find out what is death there must be no distance between death and you who are living with your troubles and all the rest of it; you must understand the significance of death and live with it while you are fairly alert, not completely dead, not quite dead yet. That thing called death is the end of everything that you know. Your body, your mind, your work, your ambitions, the things that you have built up, the things that you want to do, the things that you have not finished, the things that you have been trying to finish – there is an end of all these when death comes. That is the fact: the end. What happens afterwards is quite another matter; that is not important because you will not inquire what happens afterwards if there is no fear. Then death becomes something extraordinary, not sadistically, not abnormally or unhealthily, because death then is something unknown, and there is immense beauty in that which is unknown. These are not just words.

J. Krishnamurty

You will have noticed, my friend, that over time one learns to love certain people more, but also to forget and not miss others who long ago said they loved you.

When he asked me, "What do you like more: the sea, the sunset, or the stars?" I replied, "Your eyes. The first time I saw them, I knew what love was."