For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for that duration we three were undivided, I felt the blood of her pulse as we gripped hands, felt her blood beat in the rhythm that reached into the baby as she slipped into the doctor's hands, and for a few days we touched that immensity, we saw through her eyes to an immense intimacy, saw through to where she had come from, I felt important being next to her, and the feeling lasted when we entered our car for the drive home, thinking to myself that we weren't to be trusted with our baby, the feeling lasting while I measured us against the landscape, the February rain, the pewter sky, and then the rain freezing to the roadway, the warmth of the interior of the car with its unbreakable transparent sky dome and doors, until the car spun on the ice in the lane and twirled so that I could take an hour to describe how I threw up my hands in anguish as the baby slipped from her arms and whipped into the face of her mother reflected in the glass door, and she caught the baby back into her arms as the car glided to a stop in its usual place at the end of the drive, and nothing but silence and a few drops of blood at a nostril suggested that we would now be intimate with the immensities of death ("Interim") .William S. Wilson
About This Quote
The feeling of intimacy with the immensity of death is beautiful. It is exciting that we are at one with the entire universe. Death is beautiful because it takes everything into itself, bringing us into an experience where we are one with our entire world. We are at one with death because it unites us with the entire world.
We are at one with death because it makes us see the world in new ways, seeing the beauty in all things. When we see something in a new way, we expand our concepts of what is possible and meaningful. When we see the beauty of the world through our new eyes, we can begin to create new realities.
To describe this feeling of death that makes you embrace the whole of life, Nelson Mandela said: “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
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