The Spiritual Dimension of Cancer
I know since this week
that I have cancer.
Since that time,
except for a few moments,
of panic and fear,
I felt a deep calm
and relaxation come into my being …
I have already given up my life
or is this the silence
of acceptance?
We have
our lives already given up
from the moment
that we were born.
Because birth is nothing else
than the beginning of death.
Every moment you die,
more and more.
It’s not on that one day,
seventy years old, that death comes.
It is not an event.
But a process that starts
at birth.
It takes seventy years,
it is rather slow,
but it is a process, not an event.
And I emphasize this fact,
so that I can make you clear,
that life and death are not two things.
They become two
if death is an event that ends life.
Then they become two,
and they become antagonistic,
enemies.
When I say that dying is a process,
what starts at birth
I say that life
is also a process
what starts with the same birth
and these are not two processes.
It is one process: It starts with the birth
it ends with death.
But life and death are
like the two wings of a bird,
or two hands, or two legs.
Even your brain
have two hemispheres.
Separated. The right hemisphere
and the left hemisphere.
You can not exist
without this dialectic.
Life is a dialectic
and if you understand this,
then there will be immense acceptance of death
come to you naturally.
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