T. S. Eliot Quotes

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

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

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to enter the world: the dream world, the divided world, the false, the pseudo, the illusory world.

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.