“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”
― Frederik Pohl, Gateway
If time is infinite, are we all alive and dead at the same time?
It means that we’re always alive in this eternal moment.
Physicality decays and renews, but life never does.
What we call death applies to our bodies, not to our essential life energy.
Your body is not you, it’s a piece of the planet that you’ve accumulated (well, it did it by itself). You know this instinctively.
You may also know that the voice in your mind is not you. It’s a function of the brain (your body). The essential thing that IS you, your life’s essential element, is separate from both body and mind. We don’t know where it is, or what it looks like, but we instinctively know it is a separate thing.
If we did not experience life from new and novel physical forms, life’s evolution would be exponentially slower than it is.
So no, we are not dead and alive at the same time. We are eternally alive, changing form periodically through a transformation process commonly known as death and birth. In each life we go through many changes too. There are many stages to every form, and an infinite number of evolutionary steps.
No need to cling to this one, but we shouldn’t give up easily and bail-out, because the most difficult of life’s challenges tend to be the ones that lift us the most in terms of our development of wisdom. So, if you’re facing extreme difficulties, be thankful for them, as you work your way out of difficulty by learning and gaining wisdom.
https://www.quora.com/If-time-is-infinite-are-we-all-alive-and-dead-at-the-same-time
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