Death

"The heavens will fold and the earth before your eyes but he who lives from the Living One will experience neither death nor fear." - Jesus Christ, from the Gospel According to Thomas

"Being admonished to return to myself, I entered into the secret chamber of my soul… And I beheld with the eye of my soul the Light unchangeable… He who knows that Light knows eternity." - St. Augustine

"All that exists anywhere in the world, be it trees and plants, insects, reptiles, or any other living thing - their birth is indeed your birth, and their death your death." - Ananda Mayi Ma

"To be a living being is not the ultimate state: there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror, it becomes a part of living." - Nisargadatta

"The profit of the knowledge of the soul is, that you understand and are sure that your existence is neither existent nor non-existent, and that you are not, were not, and never will be." - Ibn ‘Arabi

"Owing to the I-am-the-body notion, death is feared as being the loss of Oneself. Birth and death pertain to the body only but they are superimposed on the Self." - Ramana Maharshi

"There is no death of anyone but only in appearance, even as there is no birth of anyone but only in appearance." - Apollonius of Tyana

"He that beholds his own Face – his light is greater than the light of the creatures. Though he die, his sight is everlasting, because his sight is the sight of the Creator." - Rumi

"When you abide in the Unborn, you abide at the source of all the Buddhas; so it’s something wonderfully precious. There’s no question of perishing here, so when you abide in the Unborn, it’s superfluous to speak about the Imperishable. What isn’t created can’t be destroyed." -Bankei

"If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death? It is but an empty dream that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body; If He is found now, He is found then. If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death." - Kabir

"Intrinsically dead, I live. Intrinsically nonexistent, I AM. I come home to my Centre here, only to find it exploding into infinite space. I come home to my Centre now, only to find it exploding into infinite time... I am dead in me, my friend is alive in me, my God is deathless in me… Our dying is the graduated reversal of our belief that is we who live and the universe that is dead." - D.E. Harding

"Watchfulness is the path to immortality, and thoughtlessness the path to death. The watchful do not die, but the thoughtless are already dead." - Dhammapada

"He who dwells on the unreal universe is destroyed." - Shankara
"While alive, be a dead man, thoroughly dead." - Bunan

Proper death is the purpose of life.

In truth, you are already dead. Just realize it. Right here and now.
Don't wait until your physical and mental bodies are dying or die - that would be a waste of good life and no guarantee that you're going to realize then.
Find death before death finds you
The truth is there is no you. There is no "I".
You are already free.
Let it go.

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NY-born twin friars die on same day at age 92, 6/3/11; Avoiding the Top 5 Deathbed Regrets, 2/7/12
Funeral Poetry: Miss Me But Let Me Go; again
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Death

In truth, there is no death.