Michael > Michael's Quotes

“if humankind knew beyond reasonable doubt that death simply means a transition to a potentially better state of consciousness, in a new Earth-like environment that is altogether quite pleasant—then what’s to stop mass suicide and a wavering of morality?”
― Cyrus Kirkpatrick, Understanding Life After Death: An Exploration of What Awaits You, Me and Everyone We've Ever Known

“Religion has, since tribal times, maintained a monopoly on matters of cosmic destiny.”
― Cyrus Kirkpatrick, Understanding Life After Death: An Exploration of What Awaits You, Me and Everyone We've Ever Known

“You are going to die, so am I. Your family is going to die, and so is mine. In general, death is regarded as a dark, horrible aspect of reality. It is therefore of some significance (to put it mildly) to point out that the only evidence that exists about what death really entails leads us toward conclusions that are the exact opposite of dark or horrible.”
― Cyrus Kirkpatrick, Understanding Life After Death: An Exploration of What Awaits You, Me and Everyone We've Ever Known

“The “university” for out of body exploration is the Monroe Institute, based in Faber, Virginia. The institute describes itself as a center for the exploration of human consciousness,”
― Cyrus Kirkpatrick, Understanding Life After Death: An Exploration of What Awaits You, Me and Everyone We've Ever Known

“fixation on the positive—on what’s better, what’s superior—only serves to remind us over and over again of what we are not, of what we lack, of what we should have been but failed to be. After all, no truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she’s happy. She just is.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life