Monday, July 29, 2013

Die before you die! Today is a good day for it!

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
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.

 The Wisdom of Eckhart Tolle

Now is a good time to die(the way Eckhart describes it) and what some Braves stated on the way to battle,
Jeanne P. said...
Crazy Horse famously exhorted his Lakota troops "Hoka Hey, today is a good day to die!" Hoka Hey is translated as: 'hurry, hurry' or 'let's get rolling' or 'on to the next adventure'. Some say: Hoka Hey is to live life in such a way that one has done all that one should upon one’s last day, so it is indeed a good day to die.

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Jeanne P. said...

Crazy Horse famously exhorted his Lakota troops "Hoka Hey, today is a good day to die!" Hoka Hey is translated as: 'hurry, hurry' or 'let's get rolling' or 'on to the next adventure'. Some say: Hoka Hey is to live life in such a way that one has done all that one should upon one’s last day, so it is indeed a good day to die.