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For life is eternal and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ~ Rossiter W. Raymond
Birth and death are events in time and space.... there is nothing but Life.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
When I consider the hour that will come
In which my spirit will be one with God,
It is then that my joy will be complete;
It is then that I will see the whole creation.
All of its secrets will be revealed to me
And my knowledge will be prefect:
The galaxies will be at arm's distance,
I will touch the stars with my bare hands;
The beauty of every flower, mountain and valley
No longer will be a secret,
And every creature will reveal to me
The immense, awe-inspiring world
Created by God's loving hand.
And as I stroll on the bottom of the oceans,
Ride a comet through a million stars,
Or watch a flower grow,
I will look in the eyes of other angels
To meet in them the same beatitude
In which my spirit rejoices.
Keep your vision focused on the afterlife and life with all its glory will come crawling to your feet!
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.
Will Czechoslovakians or turtles be born from your ashes?
If my decompasing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture - that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.
