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Quotes about Time

  • If you can give up duality, Brahman alone remains, and you know yourself to be that Brahman, but to make this discovery continuous meditation is required. Don't allocate periods of time for this. Don't regard it as something you do when you sit with your eyes closed. This meditation has to be continuous. Do it while eating, walking and even talking. It has to be continued all the time.
  • One day we are born, and one day we have to leave. When we leave is not known or guaranteed. It can be any day, any time, any moment, any breath.
  • There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
  • Time is a flow. There is a proverb: 'Time and tide wait for no one.' One who respects time becomes respected and honored in the course of time. Wasting time is wasting life.
  • Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
  • Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.
  • The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.
  • You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation; Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.
  • Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.
  • One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
  • The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that you spend with Jesus will deepen your union with Him and make your soul everlastingly more glorious and beautiful in Heaven, and will help bring about everlasting peace on earth
  • A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.
  • Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
  • It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.
  • Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.
  • The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
  • The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.
  • Manu Smriti says: One-fourth of one's knowledge comes from the Teacher, one-fourth from study, one-fourth from co-students and one-fourth by experience in the passage of time.
  • Do one thing at a time, and while doing it keep your mind completely on the task.
  • Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.
  • It is true that life is full of misfortunes, but fortunate is he who knows how to utilize the ideas which can make him creative. Time is the greatest of all filters, and ideas are the best of all wealth.
  • Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
  • If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!
  • You can live in the world and yet be spiritual. To be spiritual means to be aware of the Reality all the time.
  • The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.