'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit, And then we shall die no more.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Death is portrayed not as an end but as a reunion of spirits where mortality ceases.
- In plain terms
- When we die, our spirits meet and we stop dying.
- What can you take from it?
- Death can be seen as a beginning rather than an end.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do you believe spirits meet after death?
- Is death truly the end?
Another view
It relies on unproven spiritual beliefs about what happens after death.
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