101 And so it is with life --- and so it is with death. Yes, being born is an entering of life and dying is a departing from it. And yet so much more is connected with these Truths when we take them from the prism of our minds. For there were endless events that led to your birth -- endless choices made & risks taken; endless mistakes made & endless triumphs celebrated; endless tragedies & endless transcendences thereof. And all of them led to your being born -- to you entering this majestic life at precisely the moment you chose to enter. And the same will be true of your death -- for no matter when it comes or how it comes to be, the echoes of your passing will become one with the over-arching Hum of the Universe, and contribute to the Beautiful Birthing of every being that enters life thereafter. And because the magnitude of your life -- the courage you display and the virtues you champion and the injustices you fight and the freedoms you celebrate – directly affects & molds & influences every single being who will ever be born thereafter, it is extremely important that you go forth today and LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDINGLY -- with great Courage, … and with great Humility, … and with great Compassion, … and with great LOVE. No one knows what happens after we die, my Friends, and yet no one can deny that what we choose to DO (and what we avoid Doing) in this lifetime travels onward through eternity after we depart ... As such, let your life overflow with Goodness & Kindness & Joy today, my Friends. Let your life be lived in such a magnificently radiant way that death will never catch you unprepared -- indeed, that when death does finally come to take you, let it tremble to take you at all. Amen ... let it be so. (inspired by Turiya, Osho, Bukowski, Tecumseh & a Kempis)
102 “And I will take one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and they shall Become a single One.” ~ Jesus (Gospel of Thomas 23)