Dallas Willard Quotes

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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.

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn't matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed... some bit of her mortality slipping away.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

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

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.