Forever Is a Fantasy of Time

Music: Goldberg Variations: Variation 9.
By Johann Sebastian Bach.
Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication license.

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Forever is a fantasy of time:
One imagines time without an ending.
Reason cannot grasp eternity,
That outside time is outside comprehending.
Yet one can know it well, if so inclined.

The pith of every being is divine,
Which one can reach ascending or descending.
One is one with One eternally.

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