Wumen Huikai Quotes
One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for it. So, I went in and met (director) Toby [Haynes], and as soon as I got into that room, to see how excited everybody was to get this underway and onto the set, it just drew me to it, even more. It was an instant attraction, so I was delighted when I got the offer.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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Existence begins in every instant.
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You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
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If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.
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The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.
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I'm here, I'm not queer, and I'm not going away.
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The words “human nature” can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.
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One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
