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Materialism tends to be rather nihilistic about what happens after we die but this does not need to be the case

• [Man] … his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins. Bertrand Russell
• The finger of the atheists’ own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken. John Lothrop Motley
• The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die–it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives. Annie Dillard
• To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God? Thomas Carlyle
• And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. Anton Chekhov
• The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other – child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death. Daniel Keyes

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The universe is made of atoms…

• Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet… and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some… some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged. Terry Pratchett
• Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe. Rumi
• The history of the cosmos
  is the history of the struggle of becoming.
  When the dim flux of unformed life
  struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
  and broke at last into light and dark
  came into existence as light,
  came into existence as cold shadow
  then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.
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…and so are we

• Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis. Edwin Conklin
• Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings. Jane Roberts
• Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. Henry Adams
• Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. Michio Kaku
• How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. John Smith
• It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. Muhammad Iqbal
• A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself. Niels Bohr
• A cell is regarded as the true biological atom. George Henry Lewes
• There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. Richard P. Feynman

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We are all the atoms from cooling stars

• Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. … Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood. Howard Bloom
• The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the ‘evolution’ of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed. William James

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We all share atoms with each other and all living beings through history

• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman
• The air in a man’s lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived – Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses. Jacob Bronowski
• Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. Bill Bryson
• A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant’s trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. Jostein Gaarder

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As physical forms, we are the atoms of the universe…

• We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe. Manly Hall
• I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe. Richard P. Feynman
• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? Lord Byron
• By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom.. Blaise Pascal

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…and each atom has its assigned place in the order of things

• Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every other atom will go out of balance. . . . The law can never be broken. Each atom is kept in its place. Each is weighed and measured and fulfils its [purpose] and place. Through His command the winds blow, the sun shines. Through His rule the worlds are kept in place. Through His orders death is sporting upon the earth. Just think of two or three Gods having a wrestling match in this world! It cannot be. Swami Vivekananda
• God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again. Charles Spurgeon
• We use the word “God” as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension. Frederick Lenz

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When we die, our atoms are recycled…

• The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. ~ Michael Shermer
• There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being. Arthur Schopenhauer
• The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call ‘death.’ It’s a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead. G. Krishnamurti
• When we die, our atoms and energy are transferred into other forms. Anthony Lambert
• Death is a recycling of atoms and energy. Anthony Lambert
• I believe that at the moment of death, that the soul is released in a molecular form, that actually goes into the – the fabric of the universe, the structure of hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen because we’re electrically – we’re galvanic, we’re electrochemical. Dan Aykroyd
• All these beings have their own separate existence. Existence as a separate individual is always more or less temporary, from the day’s life of a mayfly to the billions of years of a star. Sooner or later, humans, cats, trees, planets, stars will end their temporary existence and be reabsorbed, recycled and recreated as part of new phenomena. Yet even if their existence is temporary, this does not mean that it is unreal or unimportant. Paul Harrison

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…and dispersed

• In death, Alexander of Macedon’s end differed no whit from his stable-boy’s. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms. Marcus Aurelius
• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That’s what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven. Carolyn Porco

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Atoms are virtually eternal in their life spans

• Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world have endured through the immense span of the past. Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!  Lucretius
• Nobody actually knows how long an atom can survive, but according to Martin Rees it is probably about 10^35 years. Bill Bryson

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Thus, when we die, our atoms live on…

• There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed. Emily Bronte

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…and we become the body of the universe

• The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe. John Harricharan
• The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is fully awakened, from one body to the body of the whole universe. It is a great journey, but you cannot know it from the outside. From outside, only symptoms are available; and those symptoms have made people afraid. Rajneesh
• The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. Annie Besant
• …down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this? John Daido Loori
• Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt. Krishna Das
• Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate’er is seen or known, And all that men, and all that gods enact, Hopes, fears, imaginations, purposes; With joy, and pain, and every pulse that beats In the great body of the universe, I give to the eternal sisterhood, To make my peace withal! And cast this husk, This hated, mangled, and dishonour’d carcase Into the balance; so have I redeem’d My proper birthright, even the changeless mind, The imperishable essence uncontroll’d. Hartley Coleridge
• Do not stand at my grave and weep , I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow.  I am the sunlight on ripened grain.  I am the gentle autumn rain.  When you awaken in the morning’s hush  I am the swift uplifting rush  Of quiet birds in circled flight.  I am the soft stars that shine at night.  Do not stand at my grave and cry;  I am not there. I did not die.  Mary Elizabeth Frye

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When we die, we are transformed…

• Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed. Keanu Reeves
• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• The driving force of the universe is life ongoing. Nothing is lost in creation, but nothing remains the same. This view allows for reimagining traditional concepts such as resurrection and eternal life, not as the continuation of distinct selves as ego centers, but as transformation into energy for life. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Take courage, Mortal… Death cannot banish you from the Universe. Benjamin Franklin

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… into new forms

• In the end we just realize there’s no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That’s what’s wonderful about the universe there’s no escape from living. Death doesn’t even end it. Frederick Lenz
• When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect. Giordano Bruno
• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs

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Some point out that the atoms that make us up are actually energy

• Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet… We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality. Rob Bell

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We are more fundamentally energy forms than physical forms

• We’re made up of energy. Ian Somerhalder
• We are one energy. Together we can make a change. David Guetta
• Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body. Esther Hicks
• A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter Caroline Myss
• We’re physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world. Jon Anderson
• I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe. Ilchi Lee
• God made us angels of energy, encased in solids – currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh. Paramahansa Yogananda
• We are this divine energy. It’s not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it. Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that: energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance. Gabrielle Roth
• Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don’t underestimate your power. Deepak Chopra
• It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form. Rhonda Byrne
• This ‘Primal You’ is not the personal character which identifies itself as a body/mind organism. It is the energy that ‘powers’ this whole manifestation. Leo Hartong
• The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God’s organic will, which rules and moulds this universe. James Anthony Froude

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We as atoms are recycled energy from the stars

• The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling. Dennis Kucinich

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As energy forms, we can be said to be inseparable from the universe like waves in one ocean of energy

• You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn’t come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean. Alan Watts.
• We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy. Deepak Chopra
• Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don’t underestimate your power. Deepak Chopra
• If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity, changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem. Julia Cameron
• Beyond the deception of perception, we are like waves in the ocean of humanity, all connected as One basic energy. Ziad Masri

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In both life and death, we are all thus part of the one energy that is the universe

• Every seemingly separate thing is actually one energy vibrating at an infinite number of different frequencies. Ziad Masri
• It is simply One, expressing and manifesting itself as the complex illusion of the multitude that is the dance of creation. Leo Hartong
• I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. Robinson Jeffers
• We should be thankful and loving because everything we interact with is ultimately interconnected as One Mind or One Spirit, being illusory projections of the One energy that many people label as “God.” Ziad Masri
• It’s all One thing—an ocean of energy that collapses into seemingly separate forms that we call stars and planets and animals and trees and human beings, giving them the temporary illusion of solidity and separation from their purely energetic source. Ziad Masri
• One energy field…. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.  Rhonda Byrne
• The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling. Dennis Kucinich
• Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn’t try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding … that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy — and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to “feel it in your bones. Alan Watts
• Scientifically, I know beginnings don’t exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created nor destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point—infinity. Lifelines aren’t lines at all. They’re more like circles. It’s safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn’t matter where I begin. It doesn’t change the end. Shannon Lee
• To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars. Alan Watts
• Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated building blocks,” but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object’s interaction with the observer. Fritjof Capra
• The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer. Paul Davies
• The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns… Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a Whole. Barbara Brennan
• The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one. Bruce H. Lipton

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When we sense how we will become one with energy of the universe when we die…

• They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes. Swami Vivekananda
• Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. Clifford D. Simak
• Life is to become seemingly separate from the universe for a short while. When we die, we become one with the universe again. Anthony Lambert
• You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Eckhart Tolle
• In death the many become one; in life the one become many.  Rabindranath Tagore
• The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe. Larry Dossey

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…we can let go of the fear of death

• The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything – that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be? Daniel Pinchbeck
• When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore. Shunryu Suzuki
• Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A sense of connectedness with all that is, all sense of separation dissolved in the vastness of being. Each breath melting into space as though it were the last.  Stephen Levine

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If we think of ourselves as energy, we can take heart from the fact that energy never dies

• The energy of the universe is constant. Rudolf Clausius
• In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed. Ted Andrews
• Matter converts to energy. Energy forms into matter. But in the process, there is no loss, only change. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. Norman Cousins
• Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. Keanu Reeves
• If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed. Jeanette Winterson
• In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object. Energy is a conserved quantity; the law of conservation of energy states that energy can be converted in form, but not created or destroyed. Wikipedia
• Everything is energy. All matter is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It is the cause and affect of itself. It is evenly present in all places, at all times. Energy is in constant motion and never rests. It is forever moving from one form to another. Energy follows thought. Jack Canfield
• Energy Is Conserved. All the energy that currently exists in the universe is all that ever has been and all that ever will be. Energy is neither created nor destroyed though it can be transformed into mass (and vice versa). This is known as mass-energy equivalence, and every schoolchild knows the equation that describes it: E = mc2.  Peter Atkins
• We are morphing as we go through things, and then we’re presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists – even if they’re decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there’s a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that’s called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing? Mike Cahill

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Energy is simply transformed…

• Energy never dies. It just transforms. Lisa Lopes
• Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms. Yasmin Ahmad
• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another. Albert Einstein
• It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form. Rhonda Byrne
• Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. Spider Robinson
• Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape. Sheri Reynolds
• When energy is converted from passive to active energy, it is transmuted to other materials or changed to other forms. Transmission/transmutation of the forms of energy are a continuing process of the material universe. Dr. Norma Milanovich & Dr. Shirley McCain

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…and the total amount of energy in the universe remains constant

• The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing. Rudolf Clausius
• The energy of the universe is constant. Rudolf Clausius
• The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy of the universe is constant. 2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum. Rudolf Clausius

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As energy forms, therefore, we cannot die or cease to be

• I’m never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed; only the flesh. Nas
• Energy can’t be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go? Jodi Picoult
• You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy just changes form. And that means You! The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be. Rhonda Byrne
• We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. John Green
• There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life. Oliver Lodge

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Death releases the energy we are back into the universe

• Death releases the energy into air. Jed Rubenfeld
• I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• We’re electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy. Dominic Monaghan
• Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe. Lord Kelvin

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…and we literally join the cosmic energy soup of the universe

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe. Bat for Lashes
• When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart. Rosemary Altea

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The energy we are filters into others after death…

• …When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It’s like a fire you’ve tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind…. That’s why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going. Kevin Brockmeier
• The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form. Wayne Dyer

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…and remains with our loved ones

• Remember that although bodies may pass away, the energy that connects you to a loved one is everlasting and can always be felt when you’re open to receiving it. Doreen Virtue

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The energy we put into the world lives on after our death

• In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create – the energy that we put out into the world is eternal. Madonna Ciccone
• It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. Amit Ray

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Some believe that at death, we simply shift frequency back to an energy or astral body that lives on

• The idea that we exist simultaneously in multiple realms also opens the door for science to understand how there can be life after death. Joseph Selbie
• Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another. Frederick Lenz
• In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already. . . . The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal. Hans-Peter Dürr
• Death, as the saints, sages, and near-death experiencers tell us, is only a shift from sensory awareness of our physical body to a more complete and more subtle awareness of our ever-present energy body. Joseph Selbie
• You shift frequencies in dying. You switch over to life on another wavelength. You are still a spot on the dial but you move up or down a notch or two. You don’t die when you die. You shift your consciousness and speed of vibration. That’s all death is . . . a shift. M.H. Atwater
• Physical death is the withdrawal of the invisible organization of energy from the physical body. When the influence of the template-like holographic energy-body is withdrawn, the physical body loses its coordinated entangled coherence with its holographic energy body. Joseph Selbie
• The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching it down below, while feeling comfortable. They experience the feeling of being in a spiritual body that appears to be a sort of living energy field. Raymond Moody
• Even when the physical body stops functioning, however, our energy-body continues to exist. Think of your physical body as a sock puppet. When the hand is withdrawn from the sock, the sock puppet “dies,” but the hand that was inside the puppet continues to exist. Our nonlocal, interpenetrating energy-body is the hand within the sock puppet. Joseph Selbie
• We cannot truly die. Our three-dimensional physical body allows us to exist in the three-dimensional physical world of space, time, and matter—like a deep-sea diver wearing a suit that allows him to survive deep underwater. When we die, our space, time, and matter suit ceases to function, and we are no longer able to operate in space, time, and matter. When we die our awareness shifts to our nonlocal, two-dimensional energy body in the energy-verse. Joseph Selbie
• Death is only the loss of our physical body, the shedding of a suit of clothes that covers the energy-body; it is not the end of our existence. Once the physical body dies, we adjust to being aware of our energy-body only. And once we are beyond the confining limitations of our physical body— as the saints, sages, and near-death experiencers all testify—we will experience a freedom and awareness unlike anything that can be experienced through the physical body. Joseph Selbie
• We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul – yours and mine and everyone else’s on the planet – incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short.  Benjamin Creme
• When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth … and your astral entity goes on to the astral world … it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.  Lobsang Rampa
• The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn’t dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation. Frederick Lenz
• This is what happens to man in death. He puts off his overcoat, or what we call the physical, the gross body, and he is clothed in what, for the time being, I would call the astral body. The man continues to be the same, even as I would continue to be the same, if I took off this shawl. I would then appear to you in my shirt, but I would continue to be the same man. Dada Vaswani
• Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body. Lahiri Mahasaya

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• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children. John Green

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