timeless state Quotes

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.