Defining Eternity through Spiritual Growth

The concept of eternity brings forth spirituality information that really stretches us. It causes us to confront what we have been told our whole lives. It is only through spiritual growth that we can understand the truth of our relationship with eternity.

We have been told that this is a limited venture from the time we were babies. We have been told and conditioned to believe that this adventure we are on is only going to last from our birth to our death. We have been told these things and beliefs throughout our lives and most people in the world have incorporated these ideas and beliefs into their own life lived.

Ask yourself this question, â€oeis that a love-based thought or a fear-based thought?â€� Then ask yourself this question, â€oedoes that serve me?â€�

A love-based thought would tell you the truth about this adventure we call life. A love-based thought would tell you that this journey never ends. You are eternal and the experience that we call our physical death does not stop the process.

Yes, we may change form if we choose to experience this concept called death but, once again, in truth the â€oedeathâ€� that we may experience is merely a gateway to the â€oebirthâ€� of our next choice of beingness.

Can you imagine how differently you would live your life, and how different the world would be, if you were told from the outset of your birth that you are an eternal being?

Do you see how believing in this idea of life being an eternal process can liberate you from old habits of thinking? Can you see how you may want to throw off the shackles of limitations that you locked yourself into throughout your life and, by removing those shackles, you begin to liberate yourself and your belief that you are limited in any way as to what you choose to be in life?

Life is a process. You are a process. And here's the cool thing. You are the one who determines where you direct the process to take you. You are the director of your own play. You are also the star of your own play.

You can choose to be the hero or the villain. We have all chosen to play both of these roles with equal relish. We have all played the victim, the protagonist, the woe-is-me, the liar, the cheat, the come-to-save-the-day, the pious and the devil. We have all seen the natural consequences of these roles as they unfolded before us.

We have a treasure trove of experience to call upon in each moment of now as we make our present moment decisions of what we choose to be next.

We have seen what serves us and what doesn't serve us. The question is, are we conscious enough and aware enough to actually use the knowledge of our past to help make our choices about the future?

From what we see of our collective choices, those choices that our societies as whole functioning units have made, we would have to observe that we have not learned from our past experiences. We have experienced the destructive nature of war and we proclaim that we would rather experience the concept of peace. So, in order to experience the concept of peace, we continue to perpetuate wars and we keep killing each other in order to stop killing each other and live in peace.

Wouldn't it just be easier to be peaceful in order to experience peace instead of killing each other to experience peace?

A very wise man by the name of Mahatma Gandhi understood this principal. He said, â€oeBe the change that you wish to see in the world.â€�

Another very wise man by the name of Albert Einstein told us, â€oeThe single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.â€�

Do you believe it is friendly? Do you believe that what you choose to be can change the world? Do these concepts serve you? How you answer these questions will tell you a lot about your own belief system.

You should take some time to examine some of your base beliefs and see if you are serving yourself by continuing to use them, given your vision of how you choose to define yourself. You may discover that you are limiting yourself, and what you believe you can accomplish, because you see life as a conditional or limited kind of venture.

Please open your heart and your mind to new vistas of opportunity for yourself because, in actuality, life is an on-going, everlasting, unlimited process that you control by every thought you think. It never stops.

Life is an eternal process, just like God.