Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - Body Quotes

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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a façade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon.... It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross