%% > [!summary] Related > ```dataview > LIST > FROM "" > WHERE contains(related, [[]]) OR contains(this.related, file.link) > ``` %% # Death Many have compared death to [[Forest/Sleep|sleep]]. [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] famously: > [[“Each day is a little life – every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”]] Perhaps [[The meaning of life]] is to be able to go to sleep each night as though you could die. As the poet Bernard O'Donoghue has [[Going Without Saying by Bernard O'Donoghue|said]], happy is the person who, dying, can place their hand on their heart and say, "At least I didn't neglect to tell the thrush how beautifully she sings." Some say death gives meaning to life. [[Sogyal Rinpoche]] has said: > [[“Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.”]] [[Mark Twain]]: > [[“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”]] And [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]]: > [[“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”]] ## Suggested - [[Salvation Blues by Rodney Jones]] - [[Because I could not stop for Death — (479) by Emily Dickinson]] - [[Apprehension by Rainer Maria Rilke]] - [[Don’t let your throat tighten by Rumi]] - [[Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas]] - [[From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee]] - [[Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye]] %% --- # Reference ```dataview LIST FROM [[]] OR #death AND !outgoing([[]]) AND -"Templates" WHERE file.name != this.file.name SORT file.name ASC ``` --- # Archive - %%