Petrarch Quotes

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Forever is composed of nows.

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

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

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

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

The present is the only thing that has no end.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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.

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

Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade soar and freeze the whole sky with snow. When a summer sun heats the globe rivers flood and men turn into fish and turtles. Who can judge a thousand years of accomplishments or failures?

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

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

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

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

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.