eternal existence

Living without end

Eternal existence is being that has no beginning or end—existence outside time or persisting through all of it.

The phrase appears in theological and philosophical contexts: The soul's eternal existence is central to many religions.

Unlike immortality, which implies not dying, eternal existence suggests never having been born either—always having been and always continuing to be.

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nirvana · higher plane · reincarnation · endless cycle · cosmic cycles · timelessness · omnipresence · alpha and omega · heaven · ontology · transcendence · immortality · unchangingness · absoluteness · continuity · metaphysics · divinity · salvation

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temporal duration

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State of eventual death

transience · impermanence · ephemerality · brevity · perishability

ontological status

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Absence of being

oblivion · annihilation · nothingness · extinction · void

nature of being

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Self-replicating organic systems

human existence · dust to dust

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