My loving friend Paul has started a new journey. Freed from his earthly home, he is now free to wander the cosmos, delighting in all the things he knows are there for him. I cherish his last will and testament and remember his wishes for us.
“Before death, life is a seeker.
After death, the same life becomes a dreamer.
Before death, life struggles and strives for Perfection.
After death, the same life rests
and enjoys the divine Bliss with the soul.
Before death, life is God’s Promise.
After death, life is God’s inner Assurance.
This Assurance of God’s we notice while we fulfil God in our future incarnation.”
He did not simply visit this world.
When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it’s over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world
– Mary Oliver
Amazed With Mystery 
This is touching and beautiful and filled with wisdom. Thank you for sharing – I wish him well on his universal journey and I wish you comfort on your earthly one. The love we are and the love we make are forever…
Thanks honey!
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Beautiful.
I am a friend of Pavel’s, too, and am just now seeing this eulogy. What a Traveler he is! I cherish his last will and testament, and his wishes for us to “be happy for no reason”… and thee Eleventh Commandment, “RELAX”. Thank you for being here.
*bowing Respect and Appreciation*
Anna
Thank you for reading. Paul is a beautiful soul and dear friend. His 11th commandment hangs above my kitchen table, a good reminder of “what matters’
Mimi
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