Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Venice is eternity itself.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Sex is a flame which uncontrolled may scorch; properly guided, it will light the torch of eternity

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)