Chapter 48Death and Rebirth
Book 1. Part One: Letters, Messages and Other Short Written Statements
OLD AGE AND DEATH Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.
A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken towards perfection.
Consecrate your life to the realisation of something higher and broader than yourself and you will never feel the weight of the passing years.
21 February 1958
* From birth to death, life is a dangerous thing.
The brave pass through it without care for the risks. The prudent take precautions. The cowardly are afraid of everything. But ultimately, what happens to each one is only what the Supreme Will has decided.
19 June 1966
* Some of the living are already half-dead. Many of the dead are very much alive.
* Dear friend,
Your letter came bringing me news I knew already, because often your thought comes bringing me your remembrance and keeps me in touch with your tribulations. Everyone, in truth, has his own and you know as well as I that it is only in the inner attitude that peace is found.