The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

by Frank Ostaseski

Simply put, the nature of life itself is holy. We are always on holy ground. Yet this is rarely a part of our daily experience. For most of us, the sacred shows up like a flash of lightning, a sharp inhalation between one unnoticed breath and the next.

We cannot be truly alive without maintaining an awareness of death.

We don’t realize it, but the lifelong process of repression takes energy. When we simply don’t have that energy available to us anymore, unconscious material begins slipping out. Frequently, it surprises us.