AC 2682 - how we look at life

AC 2682 [3]
To those who are not being regenerated
it makes no difference whether they know the truth, or do not;
nor whether what they do know be truth or not,
provided they can palm a thing off for truth.
But they who are being regenerated
think much about doctrine and life,
because they think much about eternal salvation;
and therefore if truth be deficient with them,
as it is the subject of their thought and affection,
they grieve at heart.
The state of the one and of the other may be seen from this:
While a person is in the body
he is living as to his spirit in heaven,
and as to his body in the world;
for he is born into both, and has been so created
that as to his spirit he can be actually with the angels,
and at the same time with men by means of what is of the body.
But as there are few who believe
that they have a spirit which is to live after death,
there are few who are being regenerated.
To those who believe it,
the other life is the whole of their thought and affection,
and the world is nothing in comparison;
but to those who do not believe it,
the world is the whole of their thought and affection,
and the other life is in comparison nothing.
The former are they who can be regenerated,
but the latter are they who cannot.