From Freedom from the Known, I’ve found this amazing passage:
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don’t know what it means to live. We don’t know how to live, therefore we don’t know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death. The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security. When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same. The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die…
Stop and grow silent and let this go into you deeply. Don’t believe it, but check it out inside yourself, for yourself and in your daily life and the life around you.
You must die, before you can really live. Die to the false–all of your interpretations and false assumptions, all spells (of language, of action and habit) that get in the way of experiencing what really is and dealing with it. This is what is really meant by being “born again”–not just the feel-good trance induction that missionary Christianity usually goes in for. This same truth is presented by countless traditions and it always speaks to the same truth about what real living is about.
What does this say about the pursuit of “Homeland Security”?
What does this say about our fears–yours and mine?
What does it say about how we live?
And what–you and I–are we, individually, gonna do about it?
