“Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
-Chief Tecumseh
A chicken comes across a path leading to a road
And takes the path, thinking it was his choice he chose.
But the chicken did not bring himself to the path that day
It was another chicken with which he had once lain.
He decided on the other side of the road he was better off
When telling his friends he was leaving, they scoffed
“You’re a chicken, and you don’t have the balls”
“Try it, and it’s your mother that we’ll call”
Although they were wrong and he was able
He was not yet ready to end his fable
He needed a note first, yes indeed
For who woud read his story if one he did not leave?
He did not want his family to grieve,
So he dotted his I’s and crossed his T’s
A final “I love you”
Is what his note will be.
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Now, to cross that road,
and reach the other side.
Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow
But someday, that chciken will end his sorrow
And reach the greener grass.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
- Anthony Hopkins
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai Lama
“There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is
inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is
inherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread
superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate
mythologies of the human species.
This prejudice against death, however, is a kind of
xenophobia. Discrimination against death is simply assumed
good and right. Absolutist faith in life is commonly a result
of the unthinking conviction that existence or survival, along
with an irrational fear of death, is “good”. This unreasoned
conviction in the rightness of life over death is like a god or a
mass delusion. Life is the “noble lie”.
- Mitchell Heismen
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those
who really apply themselves in the right way to
philosophy are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death. If this
is true, and they have actually been looking
forward to death all their lives, it would of course
be absurd to be troubled when the thing comes
for which they have so long been preparing and
looking forward.
—SOCRATES, PHAEDO
“So, don’t be afraid of nothing. I could say, “There’s nothing in nothing to be afraid of.” But people in our culture are terrified of nothing. They’re terrified of death; they are uneasy about sleep, because they think it’s a waste of time. They have a lurking fear in the back of their minds that the universe is eventually going to run down and end in nothing, and it will all be forgotten, buried and dead. But this is a completely unreasonable fear, because it is just precisely this nothing which is always the source of something.”
