“Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.”

One side male and another side female.
Both figure just an archetype of duality.
Day -Night
Pleasure -Pain
conscious -unconscious

you are not any side.but in mid.
you are not on the surrounding ring but in the center.

When you don’t eat the forbidden fruit of the bible(duality).I mean you don’t choose duality.
Or you may follow Gita_ Do your duty.don’t accept the result.if you accept it,means you choose one side of duality.

Eternity is not the future or the past.
Eternity is a dimension of now.