Quotes About Timelessness

You will feel eternity in life if you find the balance of your own balance and self-control.

The desert. No seasons of bloom and decay. Just the endless turn of night and day. Out of time: and she is gazing- not over it, taken into it, for it has no measure of space, features that mark distance from here to there. In a film of haze there is no horizon, the pallor of sand, pink-traced, lilac-luminous with its own colour of faint light, has no demarcation from land to air. Sky-haze is indistinguishable from sand-haze. All drifts together, and there is no onlooker; the desert is eternity.

Meintjes seems to be concerned not only with the moment of reality, but the preparation before it, and the length of time that lies beyond it… It is the resulting quality of timelessness that is so strangely moving

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

Abandon your notions of the past, without attributing a temporal sequence! Cut off your mental associations regarding the future, without anticipation! Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging to [the thoughts of] the present. Do not meditate at all, since there is nothing upon which to meditate. Instead, revelation will come through undistracted mindfulness — Since there is nothing by which you can be distracted.

the feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic

So that, in the end, there was no end.

he thought he could sit on this deck and watch that stream for the rest of his life.

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.

But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.