The Inner Light- Put your shoes away

I heard about Socrates last words tonight, and it reminded me of the Star Trek episode, when Patrick Stewart's wife died. I don't exactly remember the final words, she, (I think her name was Eline?) made, but I think it was something to the effect of putting shoes away. I thought it was cheesy and funny, but now I wonder why. I know it was kind of an inside joke, but it must have had (and it did have) meaning for them. But if it had so much meaning,- she picked these as her dying words- I wonder why I laughed. If I had a chance to give my last dying words, I think it would be cool to say something profound. Knowing me, though, I'm sure it'll just be something silly.
I opened with dying thoughts to begin talking about T.S. Eliot and the Inner Light. "In my beginning is my end." It has taken me awhile to get through the Four Quartets, because I get stuck in Burnt Norton and go nowhere. I can tell I've read it a lot, because I recognize it, but I'm constantly forgetting it. Maybe it's Phil's way of telling me to relive the poem each day for thousands of days until it becomes second nature. East Coker, which I just read, reminded me strongly of the Inner Light, reincarnation/ Eternal Return, Dolce Domum, everything. This passage, though, is very Inner Light, I think.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not
The Trek guy- Stewart's character, Kamin? He was living two lives. He became a different man living in that doomed planet, because he was living a stranger's life; but really, the stranger was actually him, just a different version. This passage:
Dawn points, and another day
Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn wind
Wrinkles and slides. I am here
Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning.
If you are familiar with a Jet Li movie called, "The One," you'll remember that every person has multiple sets of themselves living simultaneously in different dimensions. They're all the same person, but they're not aware of the others' existence (except for one of Jet Li's characters, because he tries to kill all the others). I was starting to think reincarnation could just be dying or fading from one consciousness to another. Like Kamin, who faded mentally from the Enterprise and lived a lifetime elsewhere, so he could return to his ship and his other life. I know that's not really right, but it made me wonder if we do slip into a different reality sometimes, and that reality seems like a strange life, but it's one we actually know and would learn to love if we stayed long enough. But we're only meant to get a glimpse every now and then. Like dreams.