“All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.” LightFallBeliefWhiteKnowingYogaConceptsEternityWhite Light Author:Frederick Lenz
“Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.” StillsRealSelfConceptsEternityChainsGoing AwaySamadhiAbsorption Author:Frederick Lenz
“Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsTryingMindHumansLittlesReasonUseRealityAnswersBehindsWorryMysteryHolyConceptsToolsEternityMiracleStructureCuriosityEach DayAweHuman MindFormulasConstructionQuestioningContemplatingMarvelousEternity Of Life Author:Albert Einstein
“But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.” TimeEternalConceptsEternityConclusionLogicalJustificationStandstillTemporality Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician might do. Taking my clues from the theosophical use made of the Vedantic levels of reality, I identified the western notion of Energy (as someting which is effecatious by means of motion), with the idea of Time. The more comprehensive dimension 'eternity' I defined as a form of energy which is efficacious without motion. In this manner I began to establish the qualities of dimensions and open out the seemingly monolithic concept of energy.” MeanMadeIdeasUseRealityMightFormEnergyLevelsViewsQualityResearchConceptsEternityWesternNotionPoint Of ViewDefinedDimensionsQuantityMathematicianClueComprehensive Author:Paul Laffoley
“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.” WritingHumansIdeasMomentsStoriesRealityTodayPastCultureGoalMemoriesProgressPlansSacrificeModernEternalDevilConceptsEternityImprovementScalesEndlessEnormousSchemesHuxleyModern CultureLive Futures Author:Jack Kornfield
“When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - religious, legal, sexual - encompassing mortality and sin and family and eternity.” ThinkingReligiousSinExampleConceptsEternityMedicalMortalityInfertility Author:Monica Youn
“The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.” MomentsUsePastGivenTermConceptsIndiaEternityKarmaExplanationPresent Moment Author:Paulo Coelho
“With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.” ReasonDrawsConceptsEternityLife ChangingNo ReasonHurryingMartians Book:Stranger in a Strange Land Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.” LifeHumansMaySoulReasonFallUnderstandingQualityPersonalityEternalPerceptionGloryConceptsCapacityMachinesEternityDown AndSensesDustSubstanceImmortalityBeing YourselfCollectionsFinestHuman SoulFalling DownEternal LifeBarnsHappiness And LoveUnderstanding LovePersonal Qualities Author:Sterling W Sill
“Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.” PeopleKnowsTwoMatterLightFriendshipAnimalAcceptingDarknessDogConceptsEternityCompanionStreaks Author:Stanley Coren