'George Harrison & the Art of Dying'

George Harrison & the Art of Dying

How a lifetime of spiritual search led to a beautiful death

BY: Murray Littlejohn and Edward Tingley

"In the "Art of Dying," Harrison reminds us that death is life's greatest opportunity. There comes a time when each of us must leave this material world, and no amount of prayer and science can keep us here-but what we truly are does not cease to be."

 

 

Art Of Dying  - George Harrison

 

There'll come a time when all of us must leave here
Then nothing Sister Mary can do
Will keep me here with you
As nothing in this life that I've been trying
Could equal or surpass the art of dying
Do you believe me?

There'll come a time when all your hopes are fading
When things that seemed so very plain
Become an awful pain
Searching for the truth among the lying
And answered when you've learned the art of dying

But you're still with me
But if you want it
Then you must find it
But when you have it
There'll be no need for it

There'll come a time when most of us return here
Brought back by our desire to be
A perfect entity
Living through a million years of crying
Until you've realized the art of dying
Do you believe me?

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"Our physical self is only mistaken for our true self,
and we have accepted this temporary condition to be final
and it is only by thinking in that misled way that death
and dying seem to be the ultimate calamity."
George Harrison

Dad's Peace Rose ~ June 2011