Wumen Huikai Quotes
One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
Wumen Huikai
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
Anne Carson
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
Oscar Wilde
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The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
J. G. Holland
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Ernest Hemingway
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
Pythagoras
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Existence begins in every instant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
William Rose Benet
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.
William Shakespeare
