Quotes About Eternity

animals surely would be in Heaven, otherwise Heaven would not be Heaven.

In my Father's house are many mansions.

Il tempo è un galantuomo

Somewhere inside I always knew that everything was one—that I was eternal, unborn, undying, and uncreated. I understood that my essential nature was not limited by or confined to my personality structure or the body I seemed to be inhabiting. There had been a dissolving, in a somewhat radical way, of the world as I had known it and of the self I had known myself to be.

Ultimate Reality is not a certain state of consciousness, no matter how wonderful or blissful. Reality is the ground of all being, unborn and undying eternity. It is as present in one experience or state of consciousness as in any other. Reality, or Truth, is that which is ultimately true in all states, at all times, in all locations.

Oneness is when there isn't another. Oneness is—there is only this. There is no that over there, there is only this. And that's all there is. There is only this, and as soon as you say what this is, you've just defined what it's not. This is only realized in the utter demolition of everything that it's not. Then that awakening is an awakening outside of everything that comes and goes. It is a total waking up outside of time.

A good ritual is meant to evoke the mystery of being, the mystery of our own existence, the mystery of life, the mystery of God. It's meant to evoke that sense of eternity that shines through the latticework of time and space. That's really what ritual is for—to put us in touch with that sense of eternity, with the sense of the sacred.

Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being.

The heavenly state is the context of eternity in which the world resides.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." [John 1:1, NIV, ESV]

Once again, eternity is peering through the latticework of time and space, and this sense of eternal stillness and deep freedom is what the iconic image of the seated Buddha conveys. What this image doesn't convey is a sense of humanity, of a real flesh-and-blood human being. But in the Jesus story, it's as if the still point that the image of the Buddha evokes within us becomes

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Time is the best killer.

Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever.

Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

Biz ölümlüler ya?amla ölümü ay?ran bir çizgi üzerinde ya?amaktay?z.

?ncil okuyordu. 'Günahkârlar kendi eserleri olan bata?a batacaklar! Gizlenmek için örmü? olduklar? a?lar, kendi ayaklar?na tak?lacak. Tanr?, varl???n? kullar?na adaleti ile belli eder. Kötüler sonunda cezalar?n? kendi kendilerine bulacaklar. Günahkârlar?n yeri cehennemdir!

Even God cannot change the past.