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• Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.

  Eric Maisel

  Desire, Duration, Quiet

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.183, Penguin

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• My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
  Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Encouragement, Heaven

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

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• Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Believe, Eye, Eagles

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.364

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• He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Death, Sleep

  "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Sibenkäs".

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• I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Death, Memories, Real

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• Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Dying, Affliction, Delusion

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• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Men, Profound

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Attention, Pay

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  Laozi

  Self, Achievement, Greed

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• It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

  Robert Breault

  Abiding Faith, Conditions, Temporary

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• There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

  Herman Melville

  Balloons, Eating, Filled

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.201

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• Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

  Adam Gollner

  Forever, Dying, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Light, Opposites

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.214, Random House

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• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Memories, Parent

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Air, Wings, Bird

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• They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Joy, Drink

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.402

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• Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

  Sydney J. Harris

  People, Eternal Life, Knows

  Sydney J. Harris (1957). “Majority of one”

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• Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Immortal

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• Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

  Sappho

  Evil, Agree

  Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart

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• Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

  Dinah

  Teach, Dies, Mortals

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• Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Dead Man

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• The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Enemy

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• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poet, Truest

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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• Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

  Robert Southey

  Christian, Character, Men

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