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AFAIK, Judiasm is the single religion which
believes in an afterlife which doesn't dwell on the afterlife. I find
little information in my searches USTFSE and in the library describing the
afterlife in Judiasm. Indeed, it sometimes seems that the afterlife is
more the memory people who live on of the person who's gone home. As I
type this, I listen to Peter, Paul and Mary sing "Light One
Candle".
"Intention, combined with detachment leads to
life-centered, present-moment awareness. And when action is performed in
present-moment awareness, it is most effective. Your intent is for the
future, but your attention is in the present. As long as your attention is
in the present, then your intent for the future will manifest, because the
future is created in the present. You must accept the present as is.
Accept the present and intend the future. The future is something you can
always create through detached intention, but you should never struggle against
the present.
The past, present, and future are all properties of
consciousness. The past is recollection, memory; the future is
anticipation; the present is awareness. Therefore time is the movement of
thought. Both past and future are born in the imagination; only the
present, which is awareness, is real and eternal. It is. It is the
potentiality for space-time, matter, and energy. It is an eternal field of
possibilities experiencing itself as abstract forces, whether they be light,
heat, electricity, magnetism, or gravity. These forces are neither in the
past nor in the furutre. They just are."
--Deepak Chopre, The Seven Spiritual Laws of
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