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A New Perspective On Death & Suicide
“The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her.” (Giordano Bruno)
Death does not just take place with the physical body but, it also takes place with the ego — ego death.
A lot of young people and people in general who have a yearning for death, who think that they need to kill themselves and commit suicide aren’t engaging in wrong feelings. Those feeling are not wrong. To want to die to yourself and commit suicide is not wrong. The problem resides in thinking about dying to oneself in the wrong way.
It is not a physical suicide or physical death. It is a character and ego death. If you’re reading this right now and resonate with the idea of killing yourself, it’s good. You’re just looking at it the wrong way.
You must die, your ego must die. Who you are today is no longer resourceful for who you’re going to be. For you to fulfill your greatest purpose, you have to go through multiple deaths to immature versions of yourself so that you could be reborn as a stronger version of yourself. That’s how the process works.
Things in life happen in this cyclical fashion. Failure is a part of success. You must fail. You must break down to build up. You must go down to grow up.
