Eternity

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Eternity is not infinity.
It is not a long time.
It does not begin at the end of time.
It does not run parallel to time.
In its entirety it always was.
In its entirety it will always be.
It is entirely present always.

Wendell Berry, XIII, Sabbaths 2005

Eternity

I think that maybe
I will be a little surer
of being a little nearer.
That's all.  Eternity
is in the understanding
that little is more than enough.

R. S. Thomas