Julian Barbour Quotes

Forever is composed of nows.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

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

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

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

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.

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

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Now is the only thing that exists.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

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.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

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

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Forever is made up of nows.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

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.