In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
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As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.
One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.
Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.