Quotations on Time and Eternity

Time and eternity, Fellowship of Friends, Robert Earl Burton, FourthWayToday

The following quotations on time and eternity are from Fourth Way authors and other eminent writers.

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”- Marcus Aurelius

“Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.” G.I. Gurdjieff 

“The body lives in space and time, subject to matter, illusion and sense. The spirit lives in eternity and truth. The soul must unite the two.” Rodney Collin

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”  Saint Augustine

“Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.” Leonardo da Vinci

“ Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.” Sophocles

“Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.” Johann von Goethe

“If there is no divine dimension to what we are doing, then whatever we do is merely killing time. If the presence of God overlaps simultaneously with whatever we are doing, then anything we work on performs eternity.” Bahauddin

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” William Blake

“Nothing is so silent as a god’s mouth. Serenely, like a swan on its eternity of unplumbed surface: the god glides and dives and saves his whiteness.” Rilke

“Eternity must be concealed from the world.” Bahir

For a related article in The Maginalian on how time and memory coalesce, see: https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/27/james-gleick-time-travel/.