“You travel back along the line of time and you don't find the past, bu...” — Clifford D. Simak Quote

“You travel back along the line of time and you don't find the past, but another world, another bracket of consciousness. The earth would be the same, you see, or almost the same. Same trees, same rivers, same hills, but it wouldn't be the world we know. Because it had lived a different life, it has developed differently. The second back of us is not the second back of us at all, but another second, a totally separate sector of time. We live in the same second all the time. We move along within the bracket of that second, that tiny bit of time that has been allotted to our particular world.”

“Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.”

“Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?”

“When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.”

“And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.”

“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”

“Isn't it amazing how those who walked this earth alongside us, breathing the same air, will be but distant echoes in the next 250 years? Yet, even 250 years ago, none among us were known, not even the most celebrated figures of our time. So why harbor envy or animosity towards that which was once nonexistent, and will soon fade away? Let us embrace the fleeting nature of existence and find solace in the beauty of each passing moment.”

“Ist nicht die Zeit wie die Liebe, ungeteilt und ungezügelt?”

“Living in the moment is living in the flow.”

“Time is all we get, and the double-edged sword of our intelligence is knowing that our time will end. To fight that fear, we spend too much time acting as though it will never end.”

“Mindfulness is the way of breaking free from the prison of the past and the lure of an idealized future. Being mindful is the way of stepping out of the unreal into the real, out of the illusory into actuality. Leaving behind the imagined filters of life, we walk into the unfiltered truth of existence.”