Alexander Smith Quotes

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.