Death Defiance

Death is everyone’s companion, but we don’t all relate to it in the same way. Some feel more at peace with it than others, but wherever you have come to stand with it, everything else in your life is colored by that. Much of the horror of death comes primarily from our fear based ideas of it, which isn’t to say that we should all dive into a morbid fascination with death either. Those practicing death defiance only seek to learn the lessons that confronting death has to teach.

Darkness is not foolishness, light is not wisdom. All who live fully and with genuine intention have wisdom. All who live first and put everything else after that understand that life is itself the ultimate end. That which furthers and supports and nurtures life is to be sought. That which threatens and blights and poisons life should be avoided and allowed to pass in time.

“Every man dies – Not every man really lives.” William Ross Wallace

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” Napoleon Bonaparte (French General, Politician and Emperor. 1769-1821)