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Old 22-11-2010, 07:36 AM
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most definitely........in my line of work i have seen quite a few deaths & after the person has 'gone' i can feel that the body is empty, just looking at the person you know there is nothing in there anymore. the spirit departs as soon as the last breathe leaves the body........


Oh yes,there is a sort of emptiness about the body that is very obvious.
I was called to the hospital after receiving a message to say my husband ' was failing'.
When I arrived there,I saw the curtain drawn around his bed but no one there to tell me if he was still alive or not.

I opened the curtain and he was lying there still covered in bed as if he was sleeping. I didn't notce the drips etc had been removed from his body.
I knew instantly he had 'left',it was like someone had placed a vacant sign.
Just a shell but I felt him standing beside me.
I was told later that he was stood there trying to 'hold my hand' to let me know he was with me.
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Old 22-11-2010, 11:23 AM
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On Death
Kahlil Gibran
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
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 the sea are one.


In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?


For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?


Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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From a truly Ascended man. There is nothing more to say.


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Old 22-11-2010, 12:27 PM
deepsea
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On Death
Kahlil Gibran
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
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 the sea are one.


In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?


For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?


Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

.................................................. ............................
From a truly Ascended man. There is nothing more to say.





Explains it all,Norseman. Thank you.
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