Enter Eternity Now

"Listen to this, please. Only what you get from this class can you take with you after death. Only what you acquire in this room can you take with you into eternity and in case you didn't know it, you don't have to wait until you die to enter eternity. You can do it right now if you understand. You can be in eternity RIGHT NOW! Then, physical death has a completely different meaning to you because you're not identified with the physical body. It is not Position A: I am alive, as opposed to Position B: someday I'll be dead. If you identify with life, you will be afraid of death. A always fears B, but makes B necessary in order to survive as A. What a peculiar contradiction. Living in Oneness with yourself, therefore in Oneness with the world, with the universe, being above time, has no opposite. Therefore, there is no life as opposed to death, no death as opposed to life. There is a state, which is eternal, which is right now. Right now, as we're seated in this room and by the clock (man made time) it is 10:00. Your physical body can be seated right now, at 10:00 in the morning, and be in time in this world. Something that is not your physical body, which is you, which you can understand, can be in eternity. So, we live in both time and eternity. If you live in time alone, you will be afraid of the opposite of life, which is death. People who think they are leading exciting lives are afraid of the B position, which is the end of their exciting life. Right? Understand? There is another kind of life which has no opposite to it at all, but is an excitement with a capital "E" in which you do not exist. Thought can never be aware of eternity. The absence of thought IS the awareness of eternity.
Thought is in time itself and it can think about catching the bus at 9 o'clock or cooking dinner at 5 o'clock, but it can't understand something which is above time. But, in the physical body, we need both to catch the bus at 9 o'clock and to understand that, when the excitement of catching the bus in order to go to the party, when that is over, then we're not concerned with the ending of the party or anything because we are not involved in it."

A talk given by Vernon Howard, 10-8-77