By Denise Michaels

Ernie and I will be attending the funeral tomorrow morning for our friend Duncan. Karen, his wife wants to have a memorial for her late husband that includes snippets from different religions. She asked me to come up with an appropriate quote from Ernest Holmes as a representation of Religious Science that would be comforting to those people there. She asked for quotes regarding immortality and how our souls and our spirits go on even after our lives here on Earth have ended.

These are the quotes I emailed to her last Friday:

"Even the best men feel that their lives here have been marred by incompleteness. Nine out of ten people believe in some type of immortality, which demonstrates that people not only wish to believe, but that – in the face of all difficulties, disappointments and disillusionments - they actually DO believe!"

"Life is good and God is good. Why not accept this and begin to live? No man need prepare to meet his God, he's meeting him everyday and each hour in the day. He meets him in the rising sun, in the flowing stream, in the budding rose, in the joy of friendship and love, and in the silence of his own soul."

"There is something divine about us which we have overlooked. There is more to us than we realize. Man is an eternal destiny, a forever-expanding principle of conscious intelligence... the ocean in the drop of water, the sun in it's rays. Man, the real man, is birthless, deathless and changeless!"

"And so we prepare not to die, but to live. The thought of death should slip from our consciousness altogether; and when this great event of the soul takes place, it should be beautiful, sublime... a glorious experience. As the eagle, freed from it's cage, soars to it's native heights, so the soul, freed from the home of heavy flesh, will rise and return unto it's father's house, naked and unafraid."

All of these quotes came from "The Science of Mind" by Ernest Holmes pages 387and 388 in the chapter on "Immortality." Holmes was the founder of Religious Science. Discover more about Religious Science at http://www.religiousscience.org or at http://www.rsintl.org

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