Jean Guitton Quotes

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Life is once. Forever.

What came is gone forever every time

Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

Nothing lasts forever

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus