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“The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?”

Source: Little Essays Toward Truth

“Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.”

World Way Existence Buddhism Eternity Endless Planes Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.”

World Nature Existence Buddhism Eternity Patterns Endless Planes Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.”

Eternity Endless Dimensions Exposed Oppressed Whim

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.”

Heaven Dying Eternal Eternity Rewards Depth Endless Variety Height Length Righteous Thieves Gift From God Triumphant Breadth

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.”

Persons Duty Flow Eternity Endless Realization Life And Death Prospects Frivolous Frivolity

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.”

Ifs Thinking Doe States Seems Would Be Wish Dark Existence Forever Atheism Eternity Positive Atheism Endless Cease Relief

Author:Emily Dickinson

“O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.”

Thinking Stills Soul Light Beautiful Universe Courses Stars Air Mass Eternity Blue Endless My Soul Streams Wilderness Expansion Ache Eden Unimaginable Intoxicated Multiplying Revelry

Author:Lord Byron

“Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.”

Would Be Evil Existence Path Conditions Eternity Finals Endless Nightmare Endless Life

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains - the bond of fellowship - the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal - the fellowship of spirit.”

Knows Men World Hands Spirit Stars Break Sun Eternal Eternity Remains Endless Flight Dust Ties Compliment Atoms Fellowship Comradeship

Book:The Lost Keys of Freemasonry

Source: The Lost Keys of Freemasonry

“The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.”

Should Littles Moments Eternity Remains Endless Diligence Little Time Unchangeable

Book:The Existence and Attributes of God

Source: The Existence and Attributes of God

“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.”

“I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.”

World Years Light Night Time Hours Saws Pure Shadow Eternity Moved Train Rounds Calm Driven Rings Endless Spheres

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.”

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.”

Ifs Men Way Life Is Our Lives Events Fields Limits Understood Eternity Endless Visuals Live In The Present Life Death Duration Timelessness Dens

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English

“Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.”

Lost Forever Mets Eternity Lips Tiny Endless Spinning Fractions

Book:Before I Fall

Source: Before I Fall

“The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.”

Ifs World Mean Doe Past Moving Lines Eternity Infinite Endless Straight Lines Spirals Proceeding Timelessness Infinite Time

Author:Elif Safak

“If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.”

Source: Diane Arbus: revelations

“The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I was banished from heaven. I kept it to remind myself of how endless my sentence was, how eternal one small choice can be. I’ve kept it a long time. I want you to have it. You broke my suffering. You’ve given me a new eternity. Be my girl, Nora. Be my everything."”

“Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.”

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

“You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.”

Done Life Is Song Forever Alive Eternal Eternity Finished Endless Awake Within You Pathways Static

Author:Ernest Holmes

“The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.”

World Ends Character Order Numbers Written Eternity Sentences Circles Endless Fixed Division End Of The World

Book:Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science

Source: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science

“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”

Goal Eternity Seeds Endless Golden Apples Doomed Congratulations Setting Goals Aries New Goal

Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.”

“Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.”

Years Ends Left Dark Answers Teacher Months Cold Lessons Eternity Endless Vampire Procession Wasteland Lestat Lestat De Lioncourt Marius

Author:Stuart Townsend

“Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!”

Long Eternity Endless

Author:Charles Spurgeon