Death a Part of Life

"If we would become wise, we must learn that we
have here no abiding city (Heb 13:14).

To have life in focus, we must have death in
our field
of vision. Within this vision we see life as
preparation for death and death as
preparation for
life.

If we are to meet our own death with hope, it
must
be a hope built not on theory or on belief
alone, but
on experience. We must know from experience
that
death is an event in life, an
essential part of
any life which is lived as a perpetual
expandiing and
self-transcending mystery.

Only the experience of the continuous death
of the
ego can lead us into this hope, into an ever
deepening contact with the power of life itself.

Only our own death to self-centredness can
really
persuade us of death as the connecting link
in the
chain of perpetual expansion, and as the way to
fullness of life".