Janet Frame Quotes

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

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

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

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

Time stays, we go.

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

Time means nothing to me.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

The present will not long endure.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

Forever is made up of nows.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

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

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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.

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