#eternal

But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to be eternal that one most loves life and the world. ↗

— Alexander Nehamas

#the-eternal-recurrence #love

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#come #does #eternal #last #nothing

People usually seek to join a religious system in order to gain the eternal bliss and freedom of the soul. But belonging somewhere; anywhere is not freedom. Free is the wind. You need to become the wind, not wanting to know how and why, but only to experience this quality of freedom that leads to the original “religion”. There the soul is finally ONE and aligned with anything. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#eternal #freedom #people #religiois #soul

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#arrested development #development #eternal #eternal youth #secret

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#anyone #day #definitively #eternal #fate

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. ↗

— John Muir

#air #alone #befall #course #eternal

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#changeless #did #eternal #exist #spiritual