Henry David Thoreau Quotes

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

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.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.