Paul Schrader Quotes

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

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.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal 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.

I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday.

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.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

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.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

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.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

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.

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.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

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

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.