The Most Liberating Thing You Can Do Is Stop Clinging to Life
Of all the obstacles standing between a person and genuine spiritual awakening, fear of death may be the most deeply embedded. The ego is fueled by fear, and nothing threatens it more directly than a sincere, unhesitant acceptance of mortality. Not an intellectual acknowledgment that death will eventually come — but a real, felt release of attachment to life, to the body, and to the identity built around both.
The distinction matters. Repeating affirmations about impermanence while the fear remains untouched accomplishes nothing. The ego cannot be deceived by words alone. What’s required is the moment when you can honestly say: *this body and this identity are not who I am. When death comes, it comes.* And mean it completely.
A Personal Experience
That moment arrived personally during a prolonged illness — more than ten years of serious health struggle that had produced a particular kind of exhaustion. One evening, sitting with a journal, I began writing calm goodbyes to my family, genuinely prepared not to wake up the next morning. Death felt not only possible but no longer frightening. No longer something I was fighting.
What happened next is difficult to describe adequately. Something shifted. A door in consciousness opened. Thoughts and guidance began arriving that were clearly distinct from my ordinary inner dialogue — running alongside it, but not generated by it. The experience startled me. In the days that followed, a series of synchronicities unfolded that were too precise and too unlikely to dismiss — events that suggested my life was moving according to a momentum no longer driven solely by my own will or effort. What I understand now, with the clarity of hindsight, is that this was alignment with the guiding consciousness of the universe — what Jesus called the Holy Spirit.
Why This Works
People living with serious illness or long-term suffering may find this path more accessible, simply because those conditions force an early confrontation with mortality that others can spend a lifetime avoiding. But illness is not the prerequisite. A change in perspective is. Death is not an ending. It is a transition. The body is a vessel — temporary, borrowed. We are not isolated, independent selves sealed off from everything else. We are human expressions of the universe, individual waves in the same ocean. Approached with that understanding, death loses its terror and can even be met with curiosity.
Director Guillermo Del Toro said it best: “Why should you want to live longer? I’m a big fan of death… I think death is really good. I’m certainly looking forward to it, because it’s the day you go, ‘Well, tomorrow I won’t have any problems.’” That attitude — genuinely adopted— communicates to the universe that you have released your grip on this body, this identity, this self. And that release opens something.
Beautifully stated. Accept this attitude with sincerity, put yourself in harmony with the universe instead of clinging to ego and identity. I highly recommend reviewing my prior article to help assist you on your journey. If you enjoy or appreciate what I’m doing on this website, I would appreciate a subscribe! No selling of emails or marketing will occur, it’s just for updates.
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