To awake from death is to die in peace.

The line hinges on a paradox: “awakening” is usually associated with life, clarity, or salvation, yet here it occurs “from death.” Read metaphorically, “death” can signify spiritual numbness, despair, or a life lived without inner awareness. To “awake” from that condition is to undergo a kind of ego-death—letting go of fear, resentment, or the illusion of control. In that sense, the second clause (“to die in peace”) suggests that genuine awakening reconciles a person to mortality: once one has faced and relinquished what is deadening within, physical death loses some of its terror and can be met with equanimity. The quote thus links inner transformation with serenity at life’s end.