Enlightenment Finding Eternity In The Now

Monday, December 22, 2014 - 03:10 in Earth & Climate

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.431 (emphasis added) -- What is that even supposed to mean, “Finding eternity in the now”? read more

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