"Death is the Birth of Him"

Too allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself in too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything - is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation to commit disaster. And a full agreement to sabotage oneself.

Therefore, I now submit myself to silence as an act of sacrifice. For there are no battles to be won. And by the resignation of our arguments, an agreeable status quo should prevail. So that the peace of our minds will finally find a resolute end.

Some may have said that, "Death is the birth of him.". I now fully understood why. Only by resting ourselves from adversity can we gain victory. And by death, i mean to rest in peace - not for the night, not in two weeks, and not for a lifetime. But to take that breathing space to find one's inner calm and gather one's inner strength.

And as Salman Rushdie boldly reminds us, "To be born again, first you have to die."