Time

Every Day is Different

Every Day is Different

"If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different."

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You have to be Grateful to Existence

You have to be Grateful to Existence

"You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they...

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Shadows

Shadows

"Those who want just to think about life, about living, about love -- for them, past and future are perfectly beautiful because they give them infinite scope. They can decorate their past, make it as beautiful as they like -- although they never lived it; when it was...

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A Sudden Stop

A Sudden Stop

"The present has nothing to do with time. If you are just here in this moment, there is no time. There is immense silence, stillness, no movement; nothing is passing, everything has come to a sudden stop."

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Now is Precious

Now is Precious

"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious...

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Any Action is often Better than No Action

Any Action is often Better than No Action

"Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing."

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Time and Mind are Inseparable

Time and Mind are Inseparable

"Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable."

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Life is Now

Life is Now

"The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."

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