Get away from the mental habit of regarding your present life as the only one; get rid of the Idea that the life you expect to lead on the other side, after your death, is to be an endless existence in one state. You could no more endure living forever in the gross matter in which you are now encased. You would weary of it. You could not support it.
Do get this idea of rhythm into your brain. All beings are subject to the law of rhythm.
Life everlasting is possible to all souls, yes; but it is not possible to go on forever in one direction.
Evolution is a curve. Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail. Until you are willing to go in and out of dense matter, you will never learn to transcend matter.
Eternity is indeed long and there are more things in earth and heaven than are dreamed of in the philosophy of the average teacher of children.
If you could only get hold of the idea of immortal life and cling to it!
If you could realise yourself as being without beginning and without end, then you might commence doing things worthwhile. It is a wonderful Consciousness, that consciousness of eternity. Small troubles seem indeed small to him who thinks of himself in the terms of a million years, or a million dollars, or a million of anything; the figure is merely a symbol for a great quantity, whether it be years or gold pieces. The idea cannot be fixed; there will always be something that escapes. No millionaire knows exactly what he is worth at any given time for there is always interest to be counted and the value is a shifting one. It is so with immortality. Do not think of yourself as having lived a million years, or a trillion years, but as truly immortal, without beginning or end.
So rest in the consciousness of eternity and work in the consciousness of eternity.
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) | J.P. Harrington and K.J. Borkowski (University of Maryland)/NASA
