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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
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Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
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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.
