The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.
Swami VivekanandaRead
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The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
We're only immortal for a limited time.
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.
A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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