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Brook

That's very sad and in another way, especially after 35 years, very gallant.

You did say “Do I use this death for a "life experience"....Wow...what does one do with that concept”

I’m just an intardnet geezer and I don’t have answers. At least non-that you’ve probably heard before in all this time. All I can add is that you are already using this in your life experience. You don’t do anything with the concept. It just is. Much like a photo in the family album. The moment was there and in an instant captured on film. Part of life’s tapestry that we collect on our individual journeys… whatever that may be. As we move along our path things change. We change. Nothing can ever be duplicated and it’s unreasonable to expect it to be. You can only expect it to be familiar and DIFFERENT. Perhaps if you embraced the difference you’ll have more photos in your album.

Again I don’t have answers. What would really concern me is if this was having a negative effect on your life. If you were to look in your photo album once in a while that’s fine but if you spent 35 years with the album on your lap then that’s bad.

I do hope your post was a homage to your loved one rather than a manifestation of clinic depression.

Regards
SteveX

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I would like to also say bless you for the concerns you have shared here...as I know that sharing a death experience is difficult, and can bleed onto others when sharing them. It is not my intention to have that happen..just to share the experience in it's true form, as I, and many have experienced it.

Many Blessings
Brook

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I am thankful you have shared this Brooke... "Blood of my blood".. I don't mind at all.

All the best, you've done amazing.

In light, of love
Shaynard

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Brook thank you for sharing your touching story .
I wish I could bring back your soul mate to you .
The sorrow you have gone through and the longing
for your lost one I do know well for having lived it myself
time and again in the stream of my many lives .
The things that were given to us are taken away the
next moment. It is all about change and impermanence.
Knowing this I have learned to let go of creations that
are not meant to last forever .
All I can do is to give and to Love for the Love of One is the
Love of all .
Each time you'll love someone from all your heart and soul
as you did for your soul mate .. of that love that brings you
into total oneness then know that he will be touched
and filled by your Love too .

Love from me
mudra

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Seth
 

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I can understand this too as the concepts of Life and death are attributes we give to matter energy space and time while the realm of spirit stands outside of these.

Love Always
mudra

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Osho's epitaph:

Never Born, Never Died--Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19,1990.

Love Always
mudra

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“Nothing really dies,” I told him. “It just turns into something else. Everything is always changing form. Do you remember the pumpkin that rotted into the earth in your garden? Tomatoes sprouted where it used to be. This bird will go back to the earth and turn into lavendar flowers and butterflies.”

Anne Cushman

Love Always
mudra

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Came across this site a few days ago. Near Death Experience Research Foundation have collected many experiences. Worth a read. http://www.nderf.org/

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Thank you SteveX . Great info .

Love from me
mudra

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On Death
Kahlil Gibran

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.


In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?


For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?


Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Love Always
mudra

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just some years ago i realise that life is something extraordinarily, i live one day at a time, enjoying every part of it, i have a lot of happy moments now. i´m amazed by the simple things around me.
live your live to the fullest in a positive way, to you and to every beings around you. :original:

some of the teachings that have inspired me.

To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Death is not the end.
Death can never be the end.
Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide.
Sri Chinmoy

The reality of my life cannot die
for I am indestructible consciousness.
- Paramahansa Yogananda -

A stone I died and rose again a plant;
a plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
-Rumi

Normally we do not like to think about death.
We would rather think about life.
Why reflect on death?
When you start preparing for death you soon realize
that you must look into your life now...
and come to face the truth of your self.
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
-Sogyal Rinpoche

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi

People sleep,
and when they die,
they awake.
Mohammed

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death,
open your heart wide into the body of life.
For life and death are one,
even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Birth is not the beginning,
Death is not the end.
Chuang Tsu

http://www.oneism.org/images/beingoflight.jpg

pedro :cheerful_h4h:

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One should certainly fear death. Pretending with philosophy is useless, mental-ism is useless. If you are not certain where you will go and what you will be next you should certainly fear death. Imagining is worthless, believing is worthless, fear death and look for real proof now. The mind is a terrible liar, anyone can fabricate delusions of their spiritual status and future. Fear of death is a very good thing. Those who pretend to not fear death, fear it the most.

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I respectfully disagree with you.

I have died many times, 57 on earth in fact, as we all have 'died'.

In my most immediate past life, my death was tragic, a young soldier in Vietnam, scared, upset at being drafted, and my life ended in a flash. It felt like a sudden surprise. As my spirit lifted out of my body I saw my best friend in Vietnam dead next to me, and I sobbed. As my unit continued to fight, I did not hesitate to leave the scene and I was tugged up over the jungle canopy, lifted into the stars. I could sense a light envelope me, and my battered soul and drained energy was greeted by my guide in the brightest light I could ever imagine. I personally did not see a tunnel, but a grayish white energy 'capture me'. It was surreal.

(BTW I have gone back and validated my past lives, and I have described things in my past that I have never, ever been aware of in this lifetime)

I have died and I will die again. I do not fear death because I have been there, and trust me, it is not to be feared. It is to be welcomed.