Rajneesh Quotes

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

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

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

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

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

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

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

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.

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.