“In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.” MatterLightFallEnergySpaceEternitySpreadEnormousCosmosExpansionParticlesMist Author:Brian Greene
“It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!” KnowsIdeasSoulSeemsDifferencesJusticeVisionLimitsEternityEnormousPurity Author:Elisabeth of Wied
“We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.” ThinkingMindHumansDoneMomentsPastRealizingHuman BeingsEternityDifficultyEnormousPresent MomentOur FuturePreciseYour FuturePast Present And FutureAlways Thinking Author:Paulo Coelho
“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
“She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.” SoulEnoughFeelingsEarthMovingImpossibleElementsEternityMiseryDepthEnormousImpressionMiserablePermanentBotherNativeFluctuationMorose Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.” FeelsRealPainLastsJoyBlackSpaceDoorsFieldsTerribleHatredEternityTragedyEnormousRisingTime And SpaceSuspended Author:Mervyn Peake
“If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one Faced with the enormous sum of lucky draws behind the success of the evolutionary game, one may legitimately wonder to what extent this success is actually written into the fabric of the universe.” IfsMayUniverseGamesChanceBehindsWonderWrittenProduceBirthLuckyDrawsEternityEnormousCellsAtomsFabricProbabilityAssemblyBacteria Author:Christian de Duve