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bewell
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 Posted - Oct 20 2011 : 05:52:23 AM
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I opened the book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, and found this quotation that so resembled my own experience in the early morning of Saturday, January 14, 1995, that I wrote it down on a piece of paper. I put the quotation of the fridge for a while, then threw it in a box. Recently I found it again. Here it is.
"So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at himself. It was hardly respectful to analyze heaven in the very moment that one flies up to enter it."
The quotation fits so well with my moment of conscious soul-ascent away from the material body: the smiling to oneself, the sense of entering the after-life, the attempt to give the "place" a name, the detailed attention to a given moment in time, the feeling of "flight up." I have not forgotten that moment, nor lost the joy of remembering it. |
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amoux
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 20 2011 : 06:19:20 AM
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I love that book - you've just inspired me to re-read it ... beautiful quotation, Bewell - thanks  |
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Delara
Lebanon
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Posted - Oct 22 2011 : 6:49:30 PM
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thanx for sharing Bewell.you & Amoux tempted me to read the book too  .Beautiful!I greatly enjoyed it! |
Edited by - Delara on Oct 22 2011 7:03:39 PM |
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Ananda
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Posted - Oct 23 2011 : 03:42:28 AM
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