Eternal Now Quotes

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

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

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

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

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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.

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 timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

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

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

Now is the moment that never ends.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

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.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

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