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I remember being on a flight in which
the very caring staff were doing all they could to comfort a distressed
fellow passenger. The plane was not in any danger, so I couldn’t help but
be struck by how terribly frightened he was of crashing. You see, when you
become truly awake, death isn’t anything that frightens you. You know
that everything is always in transition—that’s the nature of our
universe.
I’ve found that most people who have had near-death experiences say
something along the lines of, “It taught me the most valuable lesson of
my life, which is that I’ve got to take each day I have and make the most
of it.”
The problem is, it shouldn’t have to take a brush with death to do
something so natural, so basic, and so simple—which is to live your life the
way you want to, without having to answer to anyone else. So instead of
that old slogan, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life,” take
on the idea of, “Today is the last day of your life, so live it as if you
don’t have any more.”
The truth is, we don’t know how much time we’ll have. The past is over
for all of us. The future is promised to none of us. All we get is now,
and most of us know someone who was wiped out in a silly accident, who
dropped dead of a heart attack, who was taken at a young age. Every
single one of us is going to have to face a last day, and we cannot
predict when that day will come.
Death is as important a part of life as living is. Yet we’re careful not
to tell death jokes, make an offhand remark about somebody who recently
died, or the like. If only we could get to the point where we see death
as just another transition, where we leave this dimension that we live in
and enter a new one. If only we could understand that we are, in fact,
multidimensional! Understanding that and leading life on those terms can
be the most freeing, exhilarating, exciting thing that we can do.
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