To Know the Eternal Is To Be Not Afraid

To know the eternal [timeless] is called enlightenment.
Not to know the eternal is to act blindly to result in disaster.
He who knows the eternal is all-embracing.
Being all-embracing, he is impartial.
Being impartial, he is kingly [universal].
Being kingly, he is one with Nature.
Being one with nature, he is in accord with Tao.
Being in accord with Tao, he is everlasting,
And is free from danger throughout his lifetime.
thanks to Ivan Frimmel!

Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities.

 Be not afraid.

Rabbi Nachman of Braslav(gratefulness.org)
 

 Exultation is the going

Of an inland soul to sea

Past the headlands

Past the Lighthouse

into Deep Eternity.

Emily Dickinson

This Self is never born nor does it ever perish; nor having come into existence will it again cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever-same (unaffected by the usual processes associated with time). It is not slain when the body is killed.
—The Bhagavad Gita II:20 (thanks to

SelMir Hrnčić )

Ra Divakar: "Eternity" is a long time - imagine all the Saints and sinners we have known in many lifetimes being born again and again in the cycle of Samsara!

Ra Divakar: The Buddha, said that in his utmost clarity, he could see 100,000 past lives, yet when asked if he would live any differently if he did not believe in reincarnation, and he said no....

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