Stanislav Grof Quotes

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

I think being dead isn't any problem. It's the process of dying which is quite off-putting.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

As the body fades - which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet - it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.

There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.