Claude Poncelet

“the art of living is to be found in doing things well: every single action, every single day. In a dualistic world—one of polarities, perceived by our ego as one of separateness, filled with objects and subjects—it means using everything we have, secular and spiritual, to do things well. In this way, we create a life that manifests the divine, creates beauty, and does not seek achievement as its purpose. This requires full attention to everything we do: not making things “right” or perfect, but making them consciously, based in the authentic being we are”
― Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within: A Physicist’s Guide to the Deeper Dimensions of Your Life, the Universe, and Everything

“Much of our anxiety about our own death and death in general, as well as about impending catastrophes in our personal lives and in the world at large, results from not accepting that everything in our physical world comes and goes—everything ends. The personal ego likes to grasp, and grasping is a major source of our problems throughout life. What we grasp, in fact, cannot be held because nothing in the physical world is permanent. What is permanent is the Source. The physical world’s impermanence is central to many spiritual traditions and their teachings about death. If we are at peace with impermanence, accepting that things come and go, the death of the cosmos is perfectly acceptable, just as is our own death. This does not mean that we should not take action when confronted by a dangerous situation; it means that we are at peace while undertaking the effort.1 As we gain through shamanic and psycho-spiritual practices an awareness of impermanence, we learn how to live a full, vibrant life as authentic being. A”
― Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within: A Physicist’s Guide to the Deeper Dimensions of Your Life, the Universe, and Everything