Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

His mind turned, gradually comprehending, memories flooding his awareness that were not his own: memories from the timelessness before the Being within him had fallen into this body; of a Homeworld and a Consortium of...

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

. . .in your light, had I learned to love, herein your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there—there is no time.

The idea only true or right “meaning” would be that shared by the largest number of the best readers after repeated and careful readings over several generations, different periods, nationalities, moods, degrees of alertness, private...

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

What is personal death?Asking this question and pausing to look inward – isn’t personal death a concept? Isn’t there a thought-and-picture series going on in the brain? These scenes of personal ending take place solely...

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver...

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore.

Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build...

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Some only learn the value of time when it’s too late!

The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with...

There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you’re right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message– describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other....

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means....

…your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if...

That moment when this heart.. stops.. almost as if it never existed.When every.. breathe.. slows down.. almost as if you never … needed as single breathe of airWhen time stops.. almost as if every second...

This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of...

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist’s pride and the philistine’s vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and...

I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this...

I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once.