Eternal Principles

There is a lot that I am wanting to post on this blog, however due to the business of my schedule lately, I am having trouble finding time to organize my ideas and record them in a way that's perceptible to everybody else.  The next few posts that I make over the next week will probably be quite short, sweet and un-explanatory.  I am merely getting these ideas down on my blog to further give me some initiative to write.  Most of these ideas will be a repost.  -BS

Something that I have explored in the past several months is the idea and perception of eternity and living those principles in our lives (and only by those principles) which are eternal.  For instance, (most of us) don't know what will happen to ourselves after we die.  If our spirits live on, we don't know where, how, etc.  If we cease to exist then everything I'm posting here is irrelevant.  However, if anything I've been seeking the past few months is going to be any help, I must assume that I do live after I die and that at the very least I will have the same consciousness and same knowledge I have now (or else the afterlife is, again, irrelevant). 

With that in mind, we can see that dependence on anything besides ourselves is dangerous.  As a composer, I use a lot of tools to write my music.  I depend on a piano, paper, pencil/ink, Finale, instruments, books, players, etc (the very least, pencil and staff paper).  Writing music is very important to me, it is a very large part of my life.  When I cannot create music, I feel a loss, I fall into a depression.  It is hard for me to believe that after I die, I will not be able to write music.  Just think about what you are most passionate about, and imagine that in any fleeting moment, (for eternity) you can no longer perform that passion.  Now, imagine that if all we had was our consciousness and our mind, what would we be able to accomplish.  How much do we depend on those things which are finite?  Another example is, if you smoke, imagine having that addiction, but without the body.  Without the ability to smoke.  You have drawn dependence on something that is not finite.  Over the past few months I have been doing some self-spiritual-exploration in which I try to find those things which we should base our lives after, those things which will continue to sustain us even after death, those things which we can eternally depend on. 

More on this later.  Feel free to post your ideas.