Madlib Quotes

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

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

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.

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

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.

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 still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time means nothing to me.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

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

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.

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

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in 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.