September 19
Eternity is the simultaneous and complete possession of infinite life
Companions of the Way (Morning)IN stripping Time of its illusions, in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment, and drop the duration altogether. It is the depth at which we live, and not at all the surface extension, that imports. We pierce to the Eternity, of which time is the flitting surface; and really, the least acceleration of thought, and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call it Time; but when that acceleration and that deepening take effect, it acquires another and a higher name.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A VISION OF ETERNITY