ZOE (Part 4): Living With Death | Jake Haber

For the finale of our ZOE series, we had a conversation about death, and how an awareness of death can actually help us live a meaningful life - referencing Celtic & Indian wisdom, the science of our bodies, and the beauty of Autumn.

 

Quotes: 

 

Rupert Spira:

“Each night, we practice a little death in sleep. We let go of the mind and body and fall into the quiet stillness of pure being. Death is no different—it is simply the final surrender.”

 

Adi Shankara:

“You are not the body. You are the consciousness which witnesses the coming and going of the body.”

 

Celtic Proverb:

"Death is the middle of a long life”

 

Rupert Spira:

“What we fear in death is the loss of everything we have identified with. But what we truly are can never be lost.”

 

Ram Dass:

“When someone dies, the love that you shared is the space they opened up in your heart, and that space never goes away. The love remains, because love is who we are, not who we were.”

 

Rupert Spira:

"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive—the risk to be alive and express what we really are".

 

Mono No Aware: Japanese concept around appreciating the beauty of the transitory nature of life.