Luke 20:36 Meaning For They Can’t Die Any More

A mind that has awakened from the dream of separation discovers that death was part of the dream. What is born of God was never subject to ending, for endings belong only to the body and to the story of a self that could be lost. To be a child of the resurrection is simply to have remembered this, to have risen out of the belief that life is fragile and can be taken away.

Such a mind is called equal to the angels because it now shares their single certainty, that love has no opposite and cannot die. Nothing in it fears its own undoing anymore. It has seen that what it truly is was never touched by the world it seemed to leave.

Angels: the pure thoughts of God, minds that hold the single certainty that love cannot die Children of the resurrection: minds risen from the belief that life is fragile, awake to what in them was never born and cannot end

The resurrection is not a distant event but a waking within your own skull to who you are, and its children are those in whom that waking has occurred. Once it happens a person cannot die any more, because he no longer takes himself to be the body that ages and ends. He knows himself as the deathless awareness that only wore the body as a garment.

To be equal to the angels is to be lifted past marriage, sex, and dying, past the whole round of being born and passing on that the unawakened keep repeating in bodies like this one. Death, for such a person, is not extinction; it is exchanging one state for another, the way you set down a worn coat. The children of the resurrection are simply those who have awakened, and having awakened, they are done with dying for good.