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Every
situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth;
for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I
believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in
which
I accept the demonstrable truths of science, but as
a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.
-John
Fiske
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We
who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on
our lives and our days long and often before the face of God
and on the edge of eternity.
For we are made for eternity as
certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible
moral beings we must deal with both.
-A.W.
Tozer
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During
your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off
in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays
with everyone
you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is
eternal, these little
specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.
-Harriet
Doerr
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All
great natures delight in stability; all great people find
eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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God exists in eternity.
The only point where
eternity meets time
is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
-Marianne
Williamson
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a
mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
-Khalil
Gibran
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In
eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But
all these times
and places and occasions are now and here. God himself
culminates
in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse
of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in.
I drink at it, but when
I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
-Henry
David Thoreau
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
William Wordsworth
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Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit
has taken
flight in
the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have
gone far,
far away, O children of
my mother; the hills beyond
the mists are
now
hidden from my view, the last traces
of the
valleys have been flooded by
the
ocean of serenity, and the paths
and trails
have been erased by the
hand of oblivion. The roar
of ocean waves has faded. I
no
longer hear anything but
the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the
spirit. -Khalil Gibran
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The
doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light
upon the otherwise mysterious problem of people's origin. It shows that human beings, as spirits, were begotten and born
of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal
mansions
of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in temporal bodies
to undergo an experience in mortality.
-Heber
J. Grant
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Time
is . . . Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love. . . Time is Eternity!
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Eternity
is not something that
begins
after you're dead. It is going
on
all the time. We are in it now.
-Charlotte
Perkins Gilman
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To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe
will
be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is
infinitely better
than its surroundings. It is only a question of time,
and time is
nothing in the infinite. -Shirdi Sai Baba
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Our
theories of the eternal are as valuable as are
those which a chick which has not broken its way
through its shell might form of the outside world.
-the
Buddha
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| There
is no hurry. You are eternal. If you forget something
in this life, there will be plenty of time
again. -Emmanuel |
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| Eternity is
called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking
in nothing. -Thomas Aquinas |
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may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my
existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can
convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the
spiritual is not the true and real part of
me. -Alfred Tennyson |
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| What we call
eternity may be but an endless series of transitions which people
call deaths, abandonments of home, going ever to fairer scenes and
loftier heights. -Edmund Bulwer-Lytton |
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| Eternity
has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers,
people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of
ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of
eternity. -Reginald Heber |
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| It is
not possible that we should remember that we existed before our
body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can
eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to
time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are
eternal. -Baruch Spinoza |
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| Going
back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny.
Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know
eternity are called enlightened. -Lao-Tzu |
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| Millions
of persons long for immortality who do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy afternoon. -Susan
Ertz |
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| It is eternity now. I am
in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine. I
am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing
has to come, it is now. Now is eternity; now is immortal
life. -Richard Jefferies |
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| Eternity is
not the hereafter. Eternity has nothing to do with time. . .
. This is it. If you don't get it here, you won't get it
anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is
the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the
experience; here's the place to have the
experience. -Joseph Campbell |
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| To Zen, time and eternity are
one. -D.T. Suzuki |
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| There
is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more
cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another
contradiction--how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and
still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness
of eternity? -Carlos Castaneda |
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