1. It is the impermanence of the body that has convinced me of the eternality of the soul. Physics tells us that energy never dies, it merely assumes a different form. I never feel this more deeply than when gazing upon a dead body, a vessel emptied of its life force, a force that must surely now exist elsewhere.
The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
2. This is the beauty and the tragedy of my father's life and death. For him, for me, for most of us at the time, for better and for worse, death is life's mirror.
The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
3. Understanding death - its rituals, its lessons, its gift to reshape love through memory, its grief, its powerful reminder that it is not what but who we have that matters - gives our lives exquisite meaning.
The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
