Time

"Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade."

"Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time."

". . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars"

"This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It's a reference to time, a statement about time, about all the densities of being and experience, it's time disguised, it's light-up time, shifting smoky time tricked out as some locus of stable arrangement. When people use that term they're talking about the way things used to be before they moved out here, the way the world used to be, not just New Jersey or South Philly, or before their parents moved, or grandparents, and about the way things still exist in some private relativity theory, some smoky shifting mind dimension, or before the other men and women came this way, the ones in Conestoga wagons, a term we learned in grade school, a back-east term, stemming from the place where the wagons were made. (pg.333)"

"We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward."

"I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of what I remember. I have the better view - I can see her clearly, most of the time. But even if she knew enough to look, she can't see me at all."

"The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness."

"Surely time past is gone by like a shadow."

"This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut."

"Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present."

"He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present."

"The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape."

"There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past."

"I live on in the sweetness of old dayswith strangers who build new dwellingson blue hills up to the edge of the sky,I talk softly with the captured treesand comfort them sometimes. How slowly time consumes the core of things,and soundlessly treads fate’s heavy heel."

"Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them "now" and "today" you can also say "no" but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026..."

"There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms."

"It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices."

"All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love."

"the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it"

"The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as décor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into."