Quotes About Temporal

Your consciousness is the only living reality, the eternal head of creation. That which you are conscious of being is the temporal body that you wear. To turn your attention from that which you are aware of being is to decapitate that body; but, just as a chicken or snake continues to jump and throb for a while after its head has been removed, likewise qualities and conditions appear to live for a while after your attention has been taken from them.

The Bible says this life is really like a puff of smoke. I don't want to strive and stress and be anxious over a puff of smoke when I have eternity to look forward to.

Hâtons-nous; le temps fuit et nous traîne avec soi: Le moment où je parle est déjà loin de moi.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Even the most potent hash When spent eventually becomes ash The most needed now is cash But then, for it you must nt rush

These races came to distinguish ever more minute periods of duration, and at the same time to extend their temporal grasp so as to apprehend ever longer periods as "now.

There is, plainly, no deep logic to the unfolding of time.

nothing lasts forever, not even time it self

I could feel progress and left with a little bit of optimism. -- Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is.

Zwischen Immer und Nie.

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

Contrary to an assumption that arose in the nineteenth century, objectivity is not necessarily more available to those who stand at a greater distance from the events and personalities they are treating. Certain historical events and movements (and there are many) become more controversial as they recede temporally because they engage partisan passions more intensely as we move away from them.

Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and not worthwhile beyond the shortest of periods.

Consciousness is just a window into time.