In the hospice I sat close as you lay dying, not so in illusion now to assume that your death is separate from my own. All is One, the living truth of that begins to find its place. Everything and everyone eventually find their place.
Nearby where you lay there is a quote from Hemingway,[1]
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
We are called to be in the world but not to be attached to it, this is easy to say. Effortlessly is a simple way to find a path to the Way… you are about to enter the bar-do, it is only left for me to say,
May you evolve in spirit
And may you attain liberation.[2]
[1] "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929.
[2] ‘Meditations on the Ways of Impermanence’ See Glenn H. Mullin, Death and Dying The Tibetan Tradition, Arkana 1986
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