Night of Eternity

NIGHT OF ETERNITY is the journey of the soul through the three stages of Death. Death is a reality. But it is a reality that we do not accept. In fact it is a reality that we run away from. And in doing so, we realise not that in running away from Death, we are, in fact, running away from Life. And we realise not that it is the understanding of Death that will bring us to the truest understanding of life. For it is not a journey to be feared.

The journey of Death comes in 3 stages.

The first stage of the journey is “The Darkening of the Light”, wherein the individual is first confronted with death – he is poised on the brink, his mind is clouded and darkened with fear and doubt. But choices are few, and move he must, on the path before him.

The second stage of the journey is “The Last Looking Back”, wherein the individual then looks back at the life that he has lived, and thus gains greater realisation of the truths of Life. And somewhere in the realisation of life, he comes to the acceptance of Death. For he realises how interlinked they are, and how they are simply the two face of the same reality that is Eternity.

It is this realisation that brings him to the third stage of his journey, “The Flight of the Swan”, wherein he realises the joy of who he is, and thus realises the joy of his journey. And so he releases himself into his journey, thus releasing himself into all. For he realises that he is indeed the spirit of all things.

I do not claim to have great knowledge. But I have died many times. And in rising again each time, I have learnt, I hope, to truly live.

I hope this book brings you comfort.

And I hope it brings you acceptance.

And I hope you truly live….

EXCERPT:

I had to suffer in my life

But there was a reason suffering came to me,

But so much I immersed myself in my woes

That the reasons I did not see.

It came to me so I may learn

To accept, to weep, to feel,

It came so my pain could teach me to love

It came so I may learn to heal.

I had to learn to rise again

I had to learn to raise others when they fall,

But if I chose not to learn all this

There was no point in my suffering at all.