Death is an illusion

• Death is the greatest illusion of all. Rajneesh
• Matter and death are mortal illusions. Mary Baker Eddy
• Life is real, and death is the illusion. Mary Baker Eddy
• This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release. Jack Abbott
• Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream. Frederick Lenz
• Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
• Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. Andre Luiz Moreira
• Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Nhat Hanh
• The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain. Christmas Humphreys
• Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion. Mata Hari
• Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion. Frederick Lenz
• Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
• There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don’t die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond. Deepak Chopra
• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless. Dada Vaswani
• When it comes to a direct experience of the very nature of reality, the event essentially boils down to seeing unity and peering through the illusions of time and death. It is variously called realization, enlightenment, union with God, satori, samadhi, nirvana, and many other names. Robert Lanza
• Death awaits us, but no longer with the threat of extinction. Death may mean the end of body and brain and self. But, precisely because because of that, it marks the return to a wider, timeless consciousness. In the light of this knowledge all fear dissolves. Since self is an illusion, its loss amounts to nothing. David Darling
• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences – the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they’re going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. Sam Harris
• Since there’s no self-existing space-time matrix in which energy can dissipate, it’s impossible for you to “go” anywhere. In a nutshell, death is illusory. Robert Lanza
• What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained – though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
• We are in a dream state. The only way to wake up is to refuse to recognize anything as reality except God. Otherwise you will again and again sink to your knees in a mud of suffering that is of your own making, until you realize that neither good fortune nor evil fortune is real, that He alone is real. Then all earthly delusions (disease and health, joy and sorrow, life and death) will pass away. So many people have come on this earth and have left it; still we live as though we shall be here forever. Only he is wise who lives in constant remembrance of God. To think of Him always is to find freedom from this earthly dream of birth and death. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Death is the end of illusion

• Death is the beginning and death is again the end, and life is just the illusion in between. Rajneesh
• Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality. Frederick Lenz
• I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. Vachel Lindsay
• This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality? Sogyal Rinpoche
• The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them. David Steindl-Rast
• When we die, we transcend the human experience of consciousness, and its illusion of duality, and merge with the universe’s entire and unified property of consciousness. So, ironically, only in death can we be fully conscious. Dr. Peter Fenwick
• It is entirely logical to state, without any contradiction, that physical death may entail the lifting of the illusion of your individuality, or ego, without the loss of anything that has something to do with the experience of being you. Bernardo Kastrup
• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say… how we enjoy ourselves… Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. Victoria Finlay