For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. Until this has become clear, it seems that our life is all past and future, and that the present is nothing more than the infinitesimal hairline which divides them. From this comes the sensation of "having no time," of a world which hurries by so rapidly that it is gone before we can enjoy it. But through "awakening to the instant" one sees that this is the reverse of the truth: it is rather the past and future which are the fleeting illusions, and the present which is eternally real. —Alan Watts, The Way of Zen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs,/ Faces the passing of human generations./ The universe, like a bellows,/ Is always emptying, always full:/The more it yields, the more it/ holds. —Laozi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. —John Wayne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only the moment, and yet the moment is always giving way to the next, so that there is not even Now, there is Nothing. True, true. There is Nothing, if that is the way to understand how much there is. —M. C. Richards, Centering More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space. —Graffiti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Past and future veil God from our sight;/ Burn up both of them with fire. How long/ Will thou be partitioned by these segments, like a reed?/ So long as a reed is partitioned, it is not privy to secrets,/ Nor is it vocal in response to lip and breathing. —Jalal-uddin Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The morning glory which blooms for an hour/ Differs not at heart from the giant pine,/ Which lives for a thousand years. —Zen poem More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time is Breath. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I died from minerality and became vegetable; And from vegetativeness I died and became animal. I died from animality and became man. Then why fear disappearance through death? Next time I shall die Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels; After that, soaring higher than angels What you cannot imagine, I shall be that. —Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. —Kahlil Gibran The Prophet More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a good thing, it is even salutary, for a child to have periods'of boredom, for him to learn to know the dialectics of exaggerated play and causeless, pure boredom. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life leads the thoughtful man on a path of many windings. Now the course is checked, now it runs straight again. Here winged thoughts may pour freely forth in words, There the heavy burden of knowledge must be shut away in silence. But when two people are at one in their inmost hearts, They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze. And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. —Confucius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge. —B.K.S. Iyengar Light On Yoga More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only he who knows when he is deluded can free himself from such delusion. The intelligent man is not deluded, because he knows and accepts his ignorance as ignorance, and thereby has genuine knowledge. —Laozi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email