As a child, one of the things that I often did before falling asleep was groped ... to imagine eternity. With closed eyes in the darkness, armed with my limited resources, deal with the company: I started to think of a time line that began ... but could not finish. The mind float, remain suspended as he could ... then at some point try to place it somewhere, he sought an end ... but no, it was that there was over, even now, even now, even now ... ... wow ... so until later came the dizziness. The intuition of the abyss. A fraction of a moment, then came back. I think it was because they cross that threshold was not tolerable, it would mean the collapse of the mind. I must say that I was good in this game then than it is today. At least in that flash of intuition was as if eternity I had understood ( cum-prehesa made mine). I tried again recently, I can not anymore. Power of the children, who are actually closer to one.
At the end of high school, in my theme of maturity, all soaked philosophy - my favorite subject - so I wrote about the weather: "The same time (...) is simply the product of two opposing forces - past and future - of which this is a summary imaginary. Imaginary because by itself does not exist: the carpe diem is the prerogative of our supermen and this is only the surf zone, where the wave of the future of the past el'onda come close to touching and melting, cancel each other out. "
the difficulty of "grasping" eternity, that is infinitely large, the difficulty of grasping the present moment, crushed From the instant and almost canceled before and after ... From the instant seize the moment because even poses the same problem cum-prehension , this time in the infinitely small.
And it is that the infinitely large and the infinitely small are the same thing? Obviously yes. And it is that eternity is not a line be imagined without beginning or end ... but a "point", without dimensions, eternally present? Obviously yes.
If we could free ourselves from the illusion of the mind, we created a before and after, in his usual dual perception, we would realize that eternity is not something that above us and swallows us, but there is. This is not to seek it or understand it, but only to recognize it and live it. Because we are only in the eternal now.
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