If our Bodily Life is a burning, our Spiritual Life is a being burnt, a Combustion (or, is precisely the inverse the case?); Death, therefore, perhaps a Change of Capacity.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Spiritual life may involve consuming the self, and death could be a transformation.
- In plain terms
- Living spiritually might mean burning away parts of ourselves.
- What can you take from it?
- Death might be a change rather than an end.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is death a change of capacity?
- What burns in spiritual life?
Another view
The analogy of combustion may not fit all views of death.
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