The Elusive Sense of Being Fully Alive

      “The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity – activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.” Ernest Becker

     "if all of us would make an all-out effort to contemplate our own death, to deal with our anxieties surrounding the concept of death, and to help others familiarize themselves with these thoughts, perhaps there could be less destructiveness around us." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

     “Facing one’s own death when still alive offers the best preparation for being able to live well the actual moment of death. The potential for such practice is that it enables one to live without the deadening effects of the fear of death. Only once death has become a natural part of life will it be possible to go beyond the influence of existential fear and thereby come fully alive to life as it unfolds in the present moment.”
       Analayo. "Mindfully Facing Disease & Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts.” Wisdom, 2016. 

     See also: http://jglovas.wixsite.com/awarenessnow/single-post/2017/07/03/Solving-a-Tough-Paradox

                 And: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2017/05/743-existential-loneliness.html

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