A step Toward Eternity

A quote from Catherine McAuley;


Each day is a step which we take towards eternity.


I guess we can't argue with that! But what is the quality of each step we take? Where do we want to be in our quest for God when the last step we take on earth is the first step into eternity? I think these are the bigger questions.

I was reading an ad today for a magazine about the first steps to get started on the path to return to the present moment. They were called the four reminders and written by Pema Chodron.

1. Maintain an awareness of the preciousness of life. Beginning to realize how precious life is becomes one of your most powerful tools.
2.Be aware of the reality that life ends: death comes for everyone. Life is very brief...live your life as if you actually had only a day left...
3/ Recall that whatever you do, whether virtuous or not, has a result, what comes around goes around.
4. Contemplate that as long as you are too focused on self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are good or bad, you will suffer. Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you do not want, does not result in happiness.

Actually there is a name for all of this-detachment or holy indifference. So live your life today as if it is your first...or,... as if it is your last.....


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