Joseph Campbell Quotes

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

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.

find your eternity in each moment

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.