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• If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that had been granted. For such immortality is eternally preserved by participation in life, since all life is genuine and preserved by appropriate food. The food of that blessed life is 'the bread that came down from heaven and gives life to the world' (Jn. 6:33), just as the inerrant Word Himself declares about Himself in the Gospels.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Giving

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• Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Enlightenment, Hinduism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Elements, Humans

  Aristotle, Roger Crisp (2000). “Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Awareness, Hinduism

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• Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Incarnation

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• You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.

  Ray Manzarek

  Fun, Joy, Alive

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• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

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• It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Reading, People, Touching

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• I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Pathways

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• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

  Albert Camus

  Moon, World, Needs

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• Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.

  Colin Jordan

  Past, Men, Members

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• Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.

  Martiros Saryan

  Flower, Race, Joy

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• The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Flower, Reading

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• What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Mean, Quality, Want

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• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Philosophical, Ideas, Space

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Forever, Desire

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

  Plato

  Generations, Everlasting, Left

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Children, Women

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

  George Wald

  Men, Pursued, Ideals

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• Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

  Andre Maurois

  Soul, Flesh, Eternal

  "On the Meaning of Life". Book by Will Durant, 1932.

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• Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

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• The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blazing, Evidence, Solutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

  Elie Wiesel

  Learning, Jewish Tradition, Adam

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.31, Schocken

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• There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Down And, Limits, Failing

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