Those Who Have Made Peace With Death Have Released Themselves From Servitude.

Philosophers must let go of their ties to this world to die peacefully. According to Montaigne, this is “true solitude,” the state of having one’s emotions and ideas reined in and controlled. Dying in front of the world is a challenging task. “People fail to acknowledge the inherent illness of their thoughts,” remarks Montaigne, who describes the mind as “frantically seeking something, endlessly tangled up in its own work like a silkworm, until it suffocates there like ‘a mouse in pitch.’” We frantically go around as if avoiding death were obsessive. “It appears I am fleeing from myself every moment,” he remarks. The mind remains “garrulous and dissolute, escaping all constraints” regardless of the number of rules and regulations to control it. There is no direction or control in this flight. The current state of affairs can generate any level of insanity imaginable. Without a clear destination, the spirit wanders aimlessly. <a href="https://medium.com/new-earth-consciousness/those-who-have-made-peace-with-death-have-released-themselves-from-servitude-01f44fca23f8">Website</a>