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死の恐怖に打ち勝つ最良の方法死の恐怖に打ち勝つ最良の方法は -少なくとも私にはそう思われるが- 自分(あなた)の関心(の対象)を次第に広くかつ非個人的なものにしていき,ついには自我の壁が少しずつ退いていき,自分の生命がしだいに宇宙の生命に溶け込んでいくようにすることである。個々の人間存在は,川のようなものであるべきであろう。最初は小さく,狭い土手の間を流れ,烈しい勢いで,岩々を後にし,滝を越えて進む。次第に川幅は広がり,土手は後退し,水はより静かに流れ,ついには,波や流れは見えなくなり,海のなかへ没入し,苦痛もなくその個的存在を失う。老年になって,このように人生を見られる人は,彼が好む事物が存在し続けるゆえに,死の恐怖に苦しまないであろう。そして,仮に,生命力の減退とともに,物憂さが増せば,休息の考えは忌むべきものではないだろう。私は,私のもはや出来ないことを他人が引き継いでいることを知りつつ,自分が可能なことはやったという考えに満足して,いまだ仕事をしている間に死にたいものである。The best way to overcome it - so at least it seems to me - is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. Source:Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, 1956. More Info.:詳細情報:https://russell-j.com/beginner/sp/0958HTGO-040.HTM
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