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• He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Doe, Want

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• Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Brother, Unions

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.81, NYU Press

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• O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Death, Ignorance, Light

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• Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

  Ovid

  Death, Here And There, Spirit

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• From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Art, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm Of Life”

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• Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

  Raymond Moody

  Angel, Encounters, May

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• One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.

  Jodi Long

  Death, Belief, Truth Is

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• A man is not completely born until he is dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.113

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• And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Men, Midnight

  "The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.

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• I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Kings, Children

  "The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.

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• Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

  Anita Moorjani

  Cancer, Healing, Journey

  "Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing". Book By Anita Moorjani, 2012.

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• We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

  Brandon Lee

  Real, People, Forever

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• Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects of repeated trauma and a profound Near-Death Experience (NDE) are not only true but explained in a way that the reader can take in. It is rare to find a book so well written that it has both sexual abuse and an NDE under one cover. We definitely will be recommending this book to our patients.

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Children, Book, Profound

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• I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.

  Taraka Larson

  Crazy, Past, Visions Of The Future

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Easy, Fearful, Barriers

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

  Caroline Myss

  Fire, Soul, Doe

  "Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul". Book by Caroline Myss, 2007.

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• Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

  Emily Dickinson

  Death

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.74, First Avenue Editions

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• I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

  Phil Keoghan

  Goal, Important, Nineteen

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

  Di Morrissey

  Death, Years, Body

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• There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.

  Sammy Hagar

  Sleep, People, Soul

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• [On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Real, Age, Growing

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives. It's the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.

  Bernie Siegel

  Dream, Believe, Past

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

  Renata Adler

  Hero, Phones, Calling

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.100, New York Review of Books

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