Death without Fear, Life without Fear

"He who fears death fears either the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you will have no sensation, you will feel nothing bad; and if you have a different kind of sensation, then you will be a different kind of living being and will not have ceased to live."

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.58

We are afraid of feelings we have now. The fear of death is a feeling now.

"He who binds to himself a joy,
Does the winged life destroy,
But he who kisses a joy as it flies,
Lives forever in eternity’s sunrise."

William Blake. "Eternity.” Notebook, c.1818.

Fear of life is too.

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