Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

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

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

Forever is composed of nows.

Now is the only thing that exists.

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

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

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

Existence begins in every instant.

The only thing you ever have is now.

The present is a point just passed.

Today is a part of eternity.

The only real moment is now.

Forever is made up of nows.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

The living moment is everything.

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

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.

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

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