dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

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

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.