 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The best way to overcome it (= the fear of death) - 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.
Source: Bertrand Russell: How to grow old (1951)
Reprinted in: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, 1956.
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