Thread by @leashless

I think I should have been clearer much earlier that LEARNING HOW TO FUNCTION AFTER ALL HOPE IS GONE is an absolutely key spiritual practice for our time.

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE eventually. Everything you build WILL CRUMBLE (except maybe conquering space travel.) It's all ash.

The spiritually-that-counts is that you can see this situation clearly, and then to proceed to create.

This is life. Life *is* death. They were never separable. All the wood is on the fire - it gives heat and perhaps light, then goes out.

We are all metabolic, like a fire. Gone

To understand that this is a metabolic process is key. We are burning down one day at a time. Heat and light. Heat and light.

At the end, you either cooked or you didn't. But you're dead either way.

Act with dramatic grace, then fade without flinching.

We are all here to die.

Each day one day closer to the fire going out. Each day more heat, more light. A little at a time.

It's living knowing that you've already lost that makes an indestructible genius out of any old fool. The beauty of living with death as a companion radiates through everything.

You bow each day to the end of your days. Then, heat and light, as much as you care to, as much as you can, then sleep, then so it all over again. Until you can't. Until you're gone.

That's how you deal with the death of the world, all those sleeping nukes and economic hunger.

Each day, you bow to the god of death. Each day either you step towards him, or he steps towards you.

One end to all our journeys. One shared fate. One destination.

You might as well dance. You should sing if you can. You hope to be dead before your kids or students or Earth.

This is called yoga. Any decent yogi lives in this light, shows respect for all beings based on the shared mystery of our own mortality.

Accept no substitutes. The path to the grave is all you have.

From this, all lives were woven.

DANCE!

The whole art of life is dying.