Joseph Campbell Quotes

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

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

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

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

There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

All eternity is in the moment.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless.

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.

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

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.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be is here, and the only place it can be is now. But the mind is never here and is never now. Hence, mind and truth never meet. The mind goes on thinking about truth, and the truth goes on waiting to be realized, but the meeting never happens. The meeting is possible only if mind stops functioning, because mind means the past, mind means the future. Mind is never here-now. Whenever you start thinking, you are going astray. If you stop thinking, suddenly you are at home.

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?

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.