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“Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.”

Heart House Buddhism Balance Pure Enlightenment Eternity Pure Heart

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.”

Source: All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.”

Mean House Divine Window Eternity Glasses Treasure Mortals Preparing

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.”

World Mind Persons House Air Inspire Divine Conscious Eternity Impulse Visible Finite Converses

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

“Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.”

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Littles I Can Ideas Sometimes Helping Feelings House Rooms Understood Eternity Corners What If Village Immense Spiders Baths Always Thinking Crime And Punishment

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?”

Life Firsts Soul Past House Sea Land Divine Mountain Eternity League Sailor Intoxication

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity”

Want Heart Use Earth House Grief Morning Industry Eternity After Death Sweeping Bustle Morning After

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.”

Feels Firsts Children Done School House Sun Century Fields Lessons Eternity Horse Setting Settings Immortality Visible Labour Leisure Grain Roof Civility Haste Gazing Carriages Swelling

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.”

Years Running Dies House Break Path Built Eternity Remains Rounds Rings Faithful Wheels Spheres Bent

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.”

Stills Home Night Fall Passion House Heaven Stars Grows Dark Watches Darkness Tree Sky Land Calling Stones Eternity Sight Blue Ancient Sunset Coats Immensity Darkening Ancient Trees

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”

“We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.”

World House This World Sweet Birth Eternity Grass Traveler Packing

Author:Robert Duvall

“You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, you can honor the temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs, and treating it with dignity and love.”