The greatest problem is not how to continue
but how to exalt our existence.
The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous,
if there is no cry for eternal life prior to our descending to the grave.
Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence.
He has planted in us the seed of eternal life.
The world to come is not only a hereafter but also a here-now.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone
