Eternity
Susan, Henry and I were driving down US1 toward Aventura yesterday, near the place where Henry attended Aventura Montessori School for one year, in between preschool and his current Montessori elementary school. Henry asked why they had to tear down the building where the school was, and Susan explained that the school didn’t own the building, and that it was still in operation in another location. We talked about impermanence — constant change. But she also said something like, “don’t worry, somewhere there’s a little boy in that school with the teacher that loves him very much”. That led me to a couple of insights. The first was this: she’s right. The second: Eternity is fluid, and is an aspect of reality. In other words, all of those moments that are gone, one aspect of their existence is Eternity. Our personal experience of Eternity is personal, but the universal aspect of it is the quality of Eternity. Third, and later in the evening, was this: impermanence can only exist in relationship to what?