生死

200907141921生與死，死與生

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No life lives forever,

Even the weariest river

Winds somewhere safe to sea.

~Charles Swinburne

 

Out of life comes death,

and out of death, life,

Out of the young, the old,

and out of the old, the young,

Out of waking, sleep,

and out of sleep, waking,

The stream of creation and dissolution

never stops.

~Heraclitus

 

 

If you would indeed behold the spirit

of death, open your heart wide

unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even

as the river and sea are one.

~Kahil Gibran

 

 

That which has been born of earth

To earth returns;

And that which has sprouted from ethereal seed

To heaven's vault goes back.

So nothing dies of all that into being comes,

But each from each is parted

And so takes another form.

~Euripides

 

 

No need to worry.

Final responsibilities done.

Only now to think of peace.

No more energy for the body's pain.

~Jim Cohn

 

 

In the rising of the sun and in its going down,

we remember them.

In the beginning of the year and when it ends,

we remember them.

When we are weary and in need of strength,

we remember them.

When we are lost and sick at heart,

we remember them.

When we have joys we yearn to share,

we remember them.

So long as we live, they too shall live,

for they now are a part of us, as

we remember them.

~Jewish prayer

 

 

He whom we love

and lose

is no longer

where he was before,

He is now

wherever we are.

~St. John Chrysostom