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Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most. Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart, and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves.

In this lecture from 1975 "Stages of a Journey", Ram Dass discusses our journey through plains of consciousness and degrees of fate towards simplicity and quietness - to a kind of joy that is beyond time - a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are. It is a journey that involves the transformation of our beings such that our thinking mind becomes our servant rather than master.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment, a secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most in life. So begins Frank Ostaseski's stirring book, The Five Invitations, an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present awareness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves.

Frank Ostaseski begleitet seit über 30 Jahren Sterbende sowie deren Angehörige und lehrt eine mitfühlende Pflege, in deren Mittelpunkt Achtsamkeit und der bewusste Umgang mit der Vergänglichkeit stehen. Aus seiner Arbeit heraus hat er fünf Einladungen formuliert, die auch uns Lebenden helfen mit Verlusten und Krisen umzugehen - etwa bei Trennung, Krankheit oder Entlassung.