According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.