Fourteen Quotes About Spirituality and Death

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Nature is just one way for us to see the beauty around us that transcends our daily lives and thus provides greater perspective about death.

1. “I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.”

– Gloria Vanderbilt

2. “You need special shoes for hiking—and a bit of a special soul as well.”

– Terri Guillemets

3. “Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

– Rossiter Worthington Raymond

4. “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

– Nikita Gill

5. “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.”

– Kahlil Gibran

6. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

– Voltaire

7. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

– Rumi

8. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ — and find that there is no death.”

–Eckhart Tolle

9. “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

–William Penn

10. “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”

-Benjamin Franklin

11. “We are not human beings on a spiritual path, but spiritual beings on a human path.”

– Lauren Artress

12. “The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

13. “The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”

– Hermann Hesse

14. “When that time comes, when my last breath leaves me, I choose to die in peace and meet Shi’dy’in” (the creator).

– A Navajo poem