What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.