” There is No Death”
Author unknown, from Your Sacred Self by Wayne Dyer, PhD
I have always loved this ‘passage’ entitled “There is No Death” and it has given both myself and hundreds of people I have shared it with over the years a sense of peace. Even though we may believe and ‘know’ this to be true, (there IS no death) it still can be a very difficult thing when someone you love ‘passes on’.
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and the sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: “There! She’s gone!” Gone from my sight that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living weight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me not in her. And, just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There! She’s gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout “There she comes!” And that is dying.
If this helps you, please feel free to share with others!
Some people have even used this as a Eulogy at a funeral. I hope this offers peace of mind to those who read this.
Dave and Joy
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