Ryan's New World Dictionary entry 1.)

ETERNITY- a:) A perpetual perfection that is pervasively permeating all things as per its perennially persevering persistence. b:) God.* *Note: Exposure to "God" or "Eternity" is not a positive or negative experience in itself, the value of the experience lies within the individuals' acceptance or resistance of the concept in the given moment. Thus the experience of Eternity(God) can be described as "Heaven" or "Hell" depending upon the prevailing mindset of the individual. Thus the concept of Eternity(God), instills within the individual a general revulsion or attraction. Much of religion is born out of a revulsion from Eternity(God). How so? By turning from the Eternally True One, religionists seek to create and define a god closer to their own desires. This new god, is nothing but the "self" taking the place of God, for instead of embracing the true God that created them, they create a god that suits them better, a god of their own imagination. Thus they are superior to the god they have created "in their own image", thus they themselves are the God over their god, for they have created this god. You can't be the god of your own life and worship the true God at the same time. This is an eternal truth. Adam and Eve sought to be gods unto themselves, and mankind, as a general rule, is still doing this today. Beware of the "good person", their self image of "goodness" is (unbeknownst to them) the cornerstone of their "godness". The good person is only known by the background badness that they see themselves standing in contrast to. Judgement is the foundation of being a "good" person. As per Jesus, judgement is to be avoided at all cost. Judgement (the so called knowledge of good and evil) imprisons the judge. It imprisoned Adam and Eve, and it imprisons their children up to this very day. God warned Adam and Eve not to eat of that tree (the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil), as it would bring death. The warning extends to their children throughout all generations. In every new situation we find ourselves in, we have a choice of whether or not to eat of that tree. We have the choice to exult ourselves and sit upon the high chair of judgement, or humble ourselves in remembrance of our own collection of shortcomings.

Who would we be without our judgements upon the people, things and situations all around us? It is truly apocalyptic to people such as us to lay down our judgements. We lose our anchor, we lose our compass, we lose our ranking among our peers. We come into an abyss of uncertainty. Like a small child who has lost their parents. Though the child's sky falls when his judgements cease, before the dust can settle, and while the prodigal son is still a long way from home, God, the Father (the Eternal One), rushes in to embrace him. Though the prodigal return to his judgements continually, as a pig does to its rolling in the mud, still, each time he renounces them he finds the mercy of the Eternal One welcoming him with open arms. Indeed, this mercy itself is the cause of the prodigal's renouncement of judgement. For, "it is God who works in us, both TO WILL and to do his good pleasure." Phil 2:13

Eternity is not a quantity, but a quality, a quality that underlies all things. We become blind to it by attempting to stockpile a large quantity of other things: money, love, reputation, control. We do this stockpiling in the hope that somehow, a sufficient quantity of these things will bring about the quality of life that we know by intuition, ought to be. We do not suffer from a lack of quantity , but from our inability to see the quality that underlies all things.