Rajneesh Quotes

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

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

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

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

I've been thinking about forever

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

Eternity is a ham and two people.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.