Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

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

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

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

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

Forever is made up of nows.

My bits of time play with eternity.

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.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

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.

Does killing time damage eternity?

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

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

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

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

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?