Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

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.