This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things. Human life, with all its unreal ills and transitory hopes, is as a dream, which departs before the dawn, leaving no trace of its evanescent lines.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Heaven is when pain stops and a universal principle acts freely; human life is a dream that vanishes without trace.
- In plain terms
- Heaven ends pain and life is just a short dream.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept life's impermanence and seek peace from pain.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is life a dream or reality?
- What remains after we leave?
Another view
It dismisses human struggles as unreal rather than meaningful.
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