Suffering is not just “negative”; it is a bond through which we all touch each other. Suffering, truly, is the first grace. - Ken Wilber

This is a massive and violent schism and rupture in the internal organs of today's global culture and this is exactly why many social analysts believe that if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious.

My ankle hurts from dancing last night, so there is pain, but the pain doesn't hurt me, for there is no me.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.