"All eternity is in the moment"
Mary Oliver, Seven White Butterflies
"The Now is what measures time backwards and forwards, because the Now, strictly speaking, is not time but outside time. In the Now, past and future meet. … it is this Now that becomes Augustine’s model of eternity."
Maria Popova, Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
"That's why for a lot of this time I have not necessarily felt that I have less time than anybody else. Because I'm walking through this world where I'm watching everybody walk by the moment, and there is no moment but this one - and I know this stuff has been said so often, but I don't- I didn't know, I didn't know how ecstatic the moment is, how full it is, and how expansive it is. There is so much more time in a moment, than there is in a decade. which is still something i'm trying to find language for."
Andrea Gibson: On Mortality
"You might think of it as a right-brain approach to the ineffable. Even a little practice reveals something deeper: the quiet, spacious awareness in which our thoughts and stories arise, the transcendent qualities of the silent presence in which the narrative appears. It’s what some call the eternal now – the still, grateful point of the turning world, where only poetry will do.
James Carmody, A Simple Shift in Focus
"But I say mind can be free of the past, of past environment, past hindrances and, therefore, you can be free of the future, because then you are living dynamically in the present, intensely, supremely. In the present is eternity, and to understand that, mind must be free of the burden of the past; and to free the mind of the past there must be an intense questioning of the present, not the considering of how the 'I' will continue in the future."
Jiddu Krishnamurti, 'The Significance of Environment', Total Freedom, p. 29
"Nothing is as swift as a blink of the eye, and yet it is commensurable with the content of the eternal… [...] Thus understood, the moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time."
Maria Popova, Kierkegaard on Time, the Fullness of the Moment, and How to Bridge the Ephemeral with the Eternal
