The Experience of Eternity

"I can follow discerning my thoughts and perceptions and going to the place of pure awareness – that’s helping me. But I can’t know the other part about infinite consciousness coming through the eye of the needle, God contracting into localised consciousness with limitations. How can you know that? Rupert says: ‘It is your experience every morning that thought and perception arise in you, and the moment they do, you seem to become a temporary finite being located in time and space. Prior to the arising of thought and perception, you had no experience of being finite or located. So, you have the experience of enclosing yourself in thought and perception every morning. If you turn your attention away from thought and perception and go back to the awareness behind them, you lose the limitations you borrow from them. You experience yourself eternal and infinite, ever-present and without limits. From the point of view of the finite mind, now is a moment in time. But from the point of view of consciousness, now is eternity. If you stay with the experience of now and remove your thoughts from it, it’s no longer a moment in time – it becomes the ever-present. Gordon, how many nows have there been in your life? Only one, this now. And how long does now last? No time. That’s eternity. Now divested of time is the ever-present, not the everlasting. You always experience eternity – time is just what eternity looks like when seen through thought.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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