"The only ultimate tragedy is a life that has not
opened to eternal life.
In the Christian vision, death is not the all-important
moment in our life. The supreme all-important
moment in any life is the moment of full openness to
Jesus. We have to take practical steps to put
ourselves into readiness.
Anyone who meditates in faith knows that the
journey within takes us out of ourselves. Saying the
mantra is learning to die and to accept the eternal
gift of our being in one and the same act.
Our being passes through various stages of life,
through many deaths, but we can never slip out of
being. God never withdraws the inmortal gift
of live he has given to us. This is the essential
preparation we need in experience to face our
own death withou fear, without false consolation,
with open minds and open hearts.
All death is death to limitation. If we can die to self,
we rise to an infinite liberty of love. This way of
dying to the ego, the first death, is what we call
prayer".
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