Stanislav Grof Quotes

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.