Richard Francis Burton Quotes

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

That is a long word: forever!

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Forever is composed of nows.

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

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

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

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.

Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

This moment contains all moments.

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

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

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

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

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.