By examining the nature of friendliness one understands its natural basis. To one who is established in harmlessness and love, the world is his friend. One can then enjoy open and mutually supportive human relationships and open and mutually supportive relationships with all forces of nature.
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:14.
To me, eternity is the feeling that my spirit and energy have always and will always exist somewhere unfettered by time and space. The body and reality my energy dwells in now is only one very tiny reality in a multitude of simultaneous and infinite possibilities. I feel a great sense of comfort in this consciousness. With this understanding comes a joy and levity filled with hope. This hope in the promise of eternity frees us from the shackles of the temporal world where we are anxious and guilty of worrying that we will never fulfill our own expectations in the fixed time that we have before death. We are immune to the neuroses of What if? I feel that my faith in eternity is making it possible for me as I learn to love each moment in it's own right without expectations or fear of reproach. Eternity is hope.
A sense of promise in eternity
To me, eternity is the feeling that my spirit and energy have always and will always exist somewhere unfettered by time and space. The body and reality my energy dwells in now is only one very tiny reality in a multitude of simultaneous and infinite possibilities. I feel a great sense of comfort in this consciousness. With this understanding comes a joy and levity filled with hope. This hope in the promise of eternity frees us from the shackles of the temporal world where we are anxious and guilty of worrying that we will never fulfill our own expectations in the fixed time that we have before death. We are immune to the neuroses of What if? I feel that my faith in eternity is making it possible for me as I learn to love each moment in it's own right without expectations or fear of reproach. Eternity is hope.