Paulo Coelho Quotes

All experience is now. Now never ends.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

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

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Forever is composed of nows.

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

Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

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

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Now is the only thing that exists.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.