if you want to get out of your cage…
Page 178 if you want to get out of your cage you have to die now. You have to die before you die let go of the shell you're in while you're alive so you can get out of the cage that hold you then share the message with everybody else.
— from The Landing (Death)
In the book
For the old saying is truer than it sounds — do the very thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. There is even an old mystic's instruction to "die before you die" — to let go, while you are still alive, of the shell you are hiding inside, so that you can finally climb out of the cage. And here is the part for the skeptic in the family, because I have been one. — The Landing (Death)