Death is going home…

• Life is going forth; death is returning home. Laozi
• I’m not afraid of death. I’m going home. Patrick Swayze
• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
• Life is a dream walking. Death is going home. Chinese proverb
• Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home. Henry Ward Beecher
• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. Hermann Hesse
• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. Mother Teresa
• Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you. Guru Nanak
• Death is not the end, it is simply walking out of the physical form and into the spirit realm, which is our true home. It’s going back home. Stephen Christopher
• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house. John Ruskin
• Life is a forgetfulness of the original source, and death is again a remembrance. Life is going away from the original source, death is coming back home. Rajneesh
• May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place. Maltbie Davenport Babcock
• No matter how much you’ve been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It’s the cry of a child being called home at dusk. Margaret Atwood
• Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it. Seneca the Younger
• When the time comes, I will know that death is a homecoming, not a wrench that leaves a bruise on my spirit. Death is not the shadow but the light beyond the shadow. My spirit will return to its resting place in a long, slow glide toward peace.  Scottish meditation
• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
• Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home. Betty Eadie
• Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life? Zhuangzi
• The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, “It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you’re tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep.  Sleep well.  The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity.” Joshua Liebman
• And Death is not real, even in the Relative sense–it is but Birth to a new life–and You shall go on, and on, and on, to higher and still higher planes of life, for aeons upon aeons of time. The Universe is your home, and you shall explore its farthest recesses before the end of Time. You are dwelling in the Infinite Mind of THE ALL, and your possibilities and opportunities are infinite, both in time and space. And at the end of the Grand Cycle of Aeons, when THE ALL shall draw back into itself all of its creations–you will go gladly for you will then be able to know the Whole Truth of being At One with THE ALL. Such is the report of the Illumined–those who have advanced well along The Path. The Kybalion
• At death the soul leaves the physical body. But the soul does not die. It lives on in a subtle body called the astral body. The astral body exists in the nonphysical dimension called the astral plane, which is also the world we are in during our dreams at night when we sleep. Here we continue to have experiences until we are reborn again in another physical body as a baby. Each reincarnating soul chooses a home and a family which can best fulfil its next step of learning and maturation. After many lifetimes of following dharma, the soul is fully matured in love, wisdom and knowledge of God. There is no longer a need for physical birth, for all lessons have been learned, all karmas fulfilled. That soul is then liberated, freed from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Evolution then continues in the more refined spiritual worlds. Paramahansa Yogananda

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…to our heavenly home

• Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. Edward Abbey
• My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world. Billy Graham
• Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. Charles Henry Parkhurst
• My job… is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven. Joseph Losey
• Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome-home to heaven. Samuel Rutherford
• Every believer departing this old earth …immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home… Paul P. Enns
• No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. John Mason Brown
• But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! William Wordsworth
• Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure. David Jeremiah
• Although we may trust God’s promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. Billy Graham
• Death is not something to be feared, but rather anticipated… We’re going to arrive in our heavenly home and see that it was really worth it all!  David Berg
• Home — that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings. Lydia M. Child
• …if heaven’s not my home then Lord what will I do; the angels beckon me from heaven’s open door, and I can’t feel at home in this world anymore. Albert E. Brumley
• Don’t waste your time in this world longing to be somewhere else, including back home in Heaven. You are here because this is where your soul wants to be. David Sunfellow
• I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father’s house. David Brainerd
• Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home. Rose of Viterbo
• Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit. Mary C. Neal
• We are in this life as it were in another man’s house…. In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home. Gerhard
• Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, “I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you. Henry Ward Beecher
• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul’s inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them. Henry Ward Beecher
• Death is not something to be feared, but rather anticipated. Of course, we are not to precipitate it ourselves, as suicide is surrender and defeat of the worst kind. But if each of us can have the patience to wait and die in God’s time, when His time has come for us, that’s the day we’re going to be the most thankful. We’re going to arrive in our heavenly home and see that it was really worth it all! David Berg