Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

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

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

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.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

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

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

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.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

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