Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Death is not experienced as an event in life; eternal life means living fully in the present moment without temporal limits.
- In plain terms
- You don't experience death; eternal life is living in the present.
- What can you take from it?
- Focus on present experience rather than death.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you face mortality?
- What is living in the present?
Another view
It redefines eternity in a way that may not align with common usage.
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