If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Living fully requires constant renewal and acceptance of change, viewing life and death as part of a whole.
- In plain terms
- Life needs constant renewal; life and death are one cycle.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace change and letting go to truly live.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are you afraid to let go?
- How do you define living?
Another view
This view may minimize the fear of death.
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