In Loving Memory
of
David
Jarrell

Teacher -- Healer -- Mystic

1946 - 2002

In one of the stars, I shall be living.

In one of them, I shall be laughing.

And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night.

--The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In those quiet moments
in the still of the night
Remember to rejoice
and celebrate life
Do not think of me gone
and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am the sunlight on the grain
I am the gentle autumn's rain
When you awaken in the morning hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in flight
I am the soft stars that shine
You will hear my gentle voice
and remember to rejoice
Never give up your fight
and remember always
to Celebrate Life....

---- Author Unknown

To become a true master of fate
You must first become a 'Knower of Self.'
When you can repose in comfort between the wings of your Dragon,
Which is not born nor dies through ages eternal,
Then will shadows forever vanish
Leaving that which within you knows ... for it is
Knowledge not of fleeting lifetimes of illusion,
But of a real man that was, that is
And that will be again -
For whom the hour shall never strike!

--from "The 21 Lessons of Merlyn"

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal
I died as an animal and I was man.
Why should I fear? When was I ever less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar
In the Blessed Realm; but even from godhood
I must pass on ...

-The Mathnawi
from "The 21 Lessons of Merlyn"

Life is eternal and love is immortal; And death is only a horizon, And a horizon is nothing Save the limit of our sight.

-- Rossiter W. Raymond

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

-- William Wallace - [From the movie Braveheart]

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

-- Albert Pike

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

-- Brigham Young

Be of good cheer about death

and know this as a truth

--that no evil can happen to a good man,

either in life or after death.

-- Socrates