From the moment you were born, your death has walked beside
you.
Though it seldom shows its face, you still feel its empty
touch
when fear invades your life, or what your love is lost
or
inner damage is incurred...
Yet when destiny draws you into these spaces of poverty,
and your heart stays generous until some door opens into the
light,
you are quietly befriending your death; so that you will
have no need to fear
when your time comes to turn and leave,
That the silent presence of your death would call your life
to attention,
wake you up to how scarce your time is and to the urgency to
become free
and equal to the call of your destiny.
That you would gather yourself and decide carefully how you
now can live
the life you would love to look back on from your deathbed.
-
John
O'Donohue
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