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Eternal Life

Virtually all sacred traditions have language around deathlessness, eternal life, endless life...

Of course you find constant references to eternal life in Christianity.

Taoism also often dwells on this notion. In some schools of Taoism, this is taken quite literally as seeking physical immortality. While a vital and long life can be valuable, physical immortality seems a rather materialist goal that falls short of the true spiritual meaning that is intended.

In deep states of spiritual opening, an amazing thing happens: You are flooded with immense and unimpeded life. By comparison, all your experience up to that point seems like you were really asleep, not really alive. There is the sense that the common experience of life is somehow encrusted with a layer of -- let's call it "death" -- that dampens the full awareness of life.

In this awareness, death has left us. Only life remains. This doesn't mean that the physical body won't eventually grow old and cease to function. But none of those experiences need have the taste of death.

See also

	Birth, Rebirth
	Death
	Womb

Poems with the theme of Eternal Life

	Aurobindo, Sri The Guest
	Blake, William Trembling I sit day and night (from Jerusalem)
	Bradstreet, Anne There is a path no vulture's eye hath seen (from The Vanity of All Worldly Things)
	cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral)
	Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom (from Love Chapter)
	Ghalib, Mirza These divine verses
	Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power
	Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Moon
	Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
	Leon, Luis de The Life Removed
	Nanak, Guru [Japji 38] Discipline is the workshop;
	Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful One's shape, the Merciful I am
	Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean
	Solovyov, Vladimir If desires fly by like shadows
	Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali)
	Tukaram Thou art more kind than mother dear
	Whitman, Walt [7] Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? (from Song of Myself)
	Wordsworth, William Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows (from The Prelude, Book 1)
	Wordsworth, William [9] O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality)
	Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for the Great Enlightenment
	Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi

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Eternal Life

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