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Time Quotes

Just as air is the atmosphere of the body, so time is the atmosphere of the mind; if the time in which we live consists of uneven months and days regulated by mechanized minutes and hours, that is what becomes of our mind: a mechanized irregularity.
Since everything follows from mind, it is no wonder that the atmosphere in which we live daily becomes more polluted.
And the greatest complaint is: ‘I just don’t have enough time!’
Who owns your time, owns your mind.
Own your own time and you will know your own mind.
(Jose and Lloydine Argüelles, 1992 cited here, accessed 23 December 2018)

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 NLT:
1. For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
2. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest.
3. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up.
4. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.
5. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
6. A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away.
7. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
8. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. (Gloria Swanson)

Time has assumed an inordinate importance for human beings. Listen to them talking and you will hear the same phrases over and over again, ‘I do not have the time. How long will it take me? I want to save time...’ Well, in spiritual life you must not be concerned with time. If you fix a time limit in which to overcome one of your failings, or to obtain a certain psychic power or inner revelation, you will succeed only in becoming tense, and your development will not be harmonious. You must work to perfect yourself without fixing any deadline, knowing that eternity lies before you. One day, inevitably, you will gain the perfection you wish for. You must concern yourself only with the beauty of the work you have undertaken, saying to yourself, ‘Since it is so beautiful, I won’t worry about whether it will take me hundreds or thousands of years to get there: I am working, that is what counts.’ (O.M. Aïvanhov)

To live life eternal… This eternal life to which mystics aspire is not a length of time but a state of consciousness. From the moment we come into contact with the divine Source, and for as long as we dwell within it, eternal life begins to circulate within us. For eternal life is an abundant, rich and full quality of life.
A very simple image can give you an idea. Let’s take a stick – it is a straight object with a beginning and an end, so something limited. Just like time. But now suppose that this stick is flexible and that it bends until the two ends meet: it becomes a circle, and this circle can give us an idea of eternity, with no beginning and no end, an infinite unit. Each moment of our life that we manage to link to the divine Source enters into the circle and becomes eternal life; on entering the circle, it changes nature, it is no longer a detached part of the Whole. While every point on the straight line is a moment of time, every point on the circle is a moment of eternity. (O.M. Aïvanhov)

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
(Bob Marley, lyrics from Redemption Song)

To use a familiar Buddhist analogy, Time is like a necklace of square beads of tangible objects, or moments or events, and to be absorbed by this succession of limited frames is maya or illusion, whereas only the inner thread of the necklace, the unimaginable continuum, is reality. (Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry, p.25)

A Buddha sits cross-legged in a misty nature landscape, appearing to hover out-of-time

As weirdly counterintuitive as it feels to acknowledge, human beings are not naturally predisposed to think of life in terms of seconds and hours, of how they might be optimised. The development of mechanical clocks during the middle ages and, later, the advent of widespread precision timekeeping that facilitated the industrial revolution, fundamentally changed the way in which the human animal related to the world. Time became both an abstraction and a commodity, a raw material to be bought and sold, saved or squandered.
The mass adoption of this new conception of time, abstract and removed from the organic context of nature, was central to the rise of capitalism, and to the accelerating mechanisation of life. “Beginning in the 14th century,” as the American cultural critic Neil Postman put it, “the clock made us into time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. In the process, we have learned irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, for in a world made up of seconds and minutes, the authority of nature is superseded.”
(Mark O’Connell, The Guardian, posted 24 January 2020, accessed 3 November 2022)

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