“We have to wonder how many lives would be changed if we could just glimpse beyond the veil of life and gaze upon the afterlife for one brief moment. How would certain knowledge of that existence influence us in this existence? If it were actually possible to obtain such knowledge, would we really wish to have it? Consider what would result if you could foresee your own future. Such knowledge would undoubtedly change you. It would be like skipping to the last page of a novel and prematurely learning the outcome of the plot. After learning the ending, what is the point in going back and reading the rest of the story? If you could conclusively foresee the future, it would most likely spoil the spontaneity of life and the enjoyment of the here and now. While it could motivate you to make constructive changes in your life, to avoid a tragedy or to take advantage of an opportunity, it might also leave you so obsessed and fixated on the outcome of your life that you would fail to truly live the moments of your life. Living could lose all its joy and meaning.”

Moments of Forever, page  120.

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