Shauna Ray — An Indescribable Membrane of Light

We need to honour the dying experience

and nurture it by paying it full attention, kindness and love,

emptying our minds

and really concentrating on what is unfolding.

As we do this, we naturally become softer,

more compassionate, peaceful, loving and kinder

and able to really reach out to the person who is dying

with an open and loving heart.

Intimacy is sacred –

a secret trust –

a soulful commitment.

Don’t go in with your own baggage,

just observe the mystery of the other person.

People ask me if I experience fear or sorrow while I work –

none of that manifests when I’m with the dying person.

It’s their time, not mine.

Any burden or sorrow or wounds of your own disappear.

You hold the person and keep vigil

while they quietly, almost invisibly,

shimmer an indescribable membrane of light.

Shauna Ray

quoted in:

Felicity Warner

A Safe Journey Home: The simple guide to achieving a peaceful death