Eternity

Eternity

           by William Blake

  He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
     He who kisses the joy as it flies 

Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Dear all with love,

    We are but flickers in life's eternal flame, yet still and present to this moment in time which we inhabit. Faced with maps of human emotions and intellect, we search for our destinations, we search for our journey. This short verse is a piercing reminder that the identification with the things which bring us happiness is the fastest way to lose the ability to feel that joy. Joy is an ocean which we can swim in, but we are not creatures of the sea. To live in the ocean would mean we cease to recognize its beauty. When we remember this in our soul, then we remember that happiness and pain will pass, but the true wonder and exhilaration, the true love which exists beyond this lifetime is beyond this machine, beyond our worldly functions and there for all of us to experience. A place where there is no time, only love. xx  S