C. S. Lewis Quotes

find your eternity in each moment

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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

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

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

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.

You have to live in the present.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

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

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

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

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

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

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.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.