P. D. James Quotes

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

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

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.

All eternity is in the moment.

I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday.

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

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.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

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.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

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.

Live now for the promise of the Infinite

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

find your eternity in each moment

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.