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  • The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. -- Stanislav Grof
  • There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. -- Albert Camus
  • Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death! -- Max Heindel
  • The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. -- Kate Atkinson
  • A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. -- Stanislav Grof
  • Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. -- Stanislav Grof
  • Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. -- Harold Bloom
  • I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals. -- Joan Halifax
  • On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. -- Hu Shih
  • Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. -- Stanislav Grof
  • Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view! -- Martin Bormann
  • At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life. -- Annie Besant
  • While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
  • As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race. -- Revilo P. Oliver
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