Hermann Hesse Quotes

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

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

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

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

To God, all things are present; there is no past or future - it is all now.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

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

There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

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

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

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded 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.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

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

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

The moment has no time.

We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

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