translucent time is closing up its moments/ and ripens inwards, throwing out its roots,/ it grows within me, occupies me wholly,/ its foliage flings me out deliriously,/ my thoughts are just its evanescent birds,/ its quicksilver circulating through my veins,/ tree of mind, fruits the flavor of time,/ oh life that may be lived and that now lived,/ time turning forward with a deep sea roar/ and falling back without a sideways glance,/ that which has been was not but is now being/ and silently flows onward, onward to/ another moment that evaporates . . . —Octavio Paz, Sunstone More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In his maturity the Star Maker conceived many strange forms of time. For instance, some of the later creations were designed with two or more temporal dimensions, and the lives of the creatures were temporal sequences in one or other dimension of the temporal "area" or "volume." These beings experienced their cosmos in a very odd manner. Living for a brief period along one dimension, each perceived at every moment of its life a simultaneous vista which, though of course fragmentary and obscure, was actually a view of a whole unique "transverse" cosmical evolution in the other dimension . . . In other creations a creature was given only one life, but this was a "zig-zag" line, alternating from one temporal dimension to another according to the quality of the choices that the creature made. Strong or moral choices led in one temporal direction, weak or immoral choices in another. In one inconceivably complex cosmos, whenever a creature was faced with several possible courses of action, it took them all, thereby creating many distinct temporal dimensions and distinct histories of the cosmos. Since in every evolutionary sequence of the cosmos there were very many creatures, and each was constantly faced with many possible courses, and the combinations of all their courses were innumerable, an infinity of distinct universes exfoliated from every moment of every temporal sequence in this cosmos. —Olaf Stapledon, Starmaker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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