Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.