"The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time."
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"When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)"
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"In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is placed, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity."
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
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"This life is only a prelude to eternity."
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
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"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."
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"It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more."
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"All eternity is in the moment."
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"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."
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"And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision."
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"Every moment contains a spark of eternity."
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"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."
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"Time's ruins build eternity's mansions."
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"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?"
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"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence."
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"If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time."
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"What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable."
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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
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"There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity."
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