The Eternal

Whoever is seeking eternal life
must search for the place
whence essence and life originally spring.
-The Secret of the Golden Flower

The eternal is the formless root
or the sustaining dimension of the universe.
The universe is the creative impulse of the eternal
manifesting itself in endless forms
in the ever-expanding medium of time.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

In the eternal, nothing but the whole is present...
and all flows out of that which is ever present.
-Saint Augustine

Eternity is not endless time,
eternity means timeless.
-Mooji

In the timeless reality called Eternity,
where no time and all time exists as one,
all that has ever been, all that is now and all that is yet to come
is everywhere simultaneously present.
-Ann Mortifee

The eternal world is not merely a world
beyond time and the grave.
It embraces time: it is ready to realize itself
under all the forms of temporal things.
-John Caird

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.
It is going on all the time.
We are in it now.
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If eternity contains all time,
then we are living in eternity now.
-Philip Simmons

It is eternity now.
I am in the midst of it.
It is about me in the sunshine;
I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air.
Nothing has to come; it is now.
Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
-Richard Jefferies

No man can pass into eternity,
for he is already in it.
-Frederick William Farrar

If we take eternity to mean
not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,
the eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

Eternity isn't some later time.
Eternity isn't a long time.
Eternity has nothing to do with time.
Eternity is that dimension of here and now
which thinking and time cuts out.
This is it.
And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere.
And the experience of eternity right here and now
is the function of life.
-Joseph Campbell

We feel and we know
that we are eternal.
-Baruch Spinoza

Eternity unfolds itself
in your experience.
-J. Sig Paulson

The eternal world is revealed
through personal images.
-Marion Woodman

I have seen the Eternal in a human face.
-Aurobino Ghose

Eternal youth
is the personification of eternity.
-Neville Goddard

Stars and blossoming fruit trees:
utter permanence and extreme fragility
give an equal sense of eternity.
-Simone Weil

In the presence of eternity,
the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
-Robert Green Ingersoll

As far as the mind sees things
in their eternal aspect,
it participates in eternity.
-Baruch Spinoza

In its essential nature, time is eternity itself,
perpetual changeless duration.
-David Frawley

Time is a moving image of eternity.
-Plato

Time is the chrysalis of eternity.
-Jean-Paul Richter

I saw the starry Tree
Eternity
Put forth the blossom Time.
-Robert Williams Buchanan

Eternity is in love
with the productions of time.
-William Blake

In time there is no present,
In eternity, no future,
In eternity, no past.
-Alfred Tennyson

Eternity is time,
Time, eternity.
To see the two as opposites
is mind's perversity.
-Angelus Silesius

Time's eternity, eternity like time,
Unless you do yourself between them draw a line.
-Angelus Silesius

Time is only that period of eternity
which we are conscious of now.
-Christian Larson

He to whom time is like eternity,
and eternity like time, is free.
-Jacob Boehme

Only when we know every moment of our lives
will we know that we are eternal.
-Harriet Martineau

What is eternal is circular
and what is circular is eternal.
-Aristotle

An eternity is a complete cycle of time.
-Dane Rudhyar

Eternity means
 the wholeness of a cycle.
-Dane Rudhyar

The inward man is not at all in time or place,
but is purely and simply in eternity.
-Meister Eckhart

The spiritual fullness of being is eternity.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The eternal represents the element
of pure transcendence of being.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

The life eternal
is the life of the divinity
that is in man.
-Christian Larson

We are citizens of eternity.
-Feodor Dostoyevsky

Live in eternity's sunrise.
-William Blake

Eternity and I, one united ray.
-Yogananda

The Infinite

I cannot help it; -
in spite of myself,
infinity torments me.
-Alfred de Musset

The infinite!
No other question
has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
-David Hilbert

The thirst for the infinite
proves infinity.
-Victor Hugo

Our knowledge can only be finite,
while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
-Karl Popper

Infinite and finite coexist in and by each other.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The finite is the foam of the infinite.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am incapable of conceiving infinity
and yet I do not accept finity.
-Simone de Beauvoir

It is only the finite
that has wrought and suffered;
the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is that to the Infinite?
-Victor Hugo

Tell me what your infinite is
and I'll know the meaning of your universe:
it is the infinite of the sea of the sky,
is it the infinite of the earth's depths or of the pyre?
-Gaston Bachelard

Life is not entirely real
until it opens into the sense of the infinite.
-Aurobindo Ghose

No finite point has meaning
without an infinite reference point.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

The infinite is in the finite
of every instant.
-Zen Proverb

The Infinite defines itself in the finite,
the finite conceives itself in the infinite.
-Aurobindo Ghose

In the consciousness of the infinite,
the conscious subject has for his object
the infinity of his own nature.
-Louis Feuerbach

Live in the infinite,
rather than the finite.
-Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

How you like infinity disclosed 

is a matter of taste.

-David Deida

In all our thoughts and actions,
we must be conscious of the infinite.
-Rabindranath Tagore

All finite things reveal infinitude.
-Theodore Roethke

If you want to reach the infinite,
explore every aspect of the finite.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The infinite can only be reached
after we have grown in the finite.
-Aurobindo Ghose

On the peak of the highest mountain,
the four directions expand to infinity.
-Han Shan

There is no here, no there,
Infinity lies before our eyes.
-Seng-ts'an

The whole universe is to us
a writing of the infinite in the language of the finite.
-Vivekananda

The nature of infinity is this: That everything has its
Own vortex; and when once a traveller through eternity
Has passed that Vortex, he perceives it roll backward behind
Behind his path; into a globe itself unfolding; like a sun;
Or like a moon, or like universe of starry majesty.
-William Blake

The infinite has the ability
to reproduce itself endlessly within itself.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

The infinity is a matter of power:
there is question,
not of the soul's being divisible into an infinite number of parts,
but of an infinite possible effectiveness.
-Plotinus

Infinite Life is life self-renewing.
-John Seaman Garns

When you take away infinite from infinite,
what remains is infinite.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

Infinity wore a boundless zero's form.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The infinite is not a sum of all things;
it is That which is all things and more.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The inmost is the infinite.
-Aurobindo Ghose

While there is an infinite outside us,
is there not an infinite within?
These two infinities,
do they not rest superimposed on one another?
-Victor Hugo

The Desire of Man being Infinite,
the possession is Infinite,
and himself Infinite.
-William Blake

The infinite adjusts itself to our need.
-Norman Nicholson

Infinite and Eternal

We should train ourselves
to think in grand terms:
Eternity! Infinity!
-Paramahansa Yogananda

We ask for nothing less
than the impossible possibility:
infinity in a finite fact,
and eternity in a temporal act.
-Prentice Mulford

The finite is only a circumstance of the Infinite
and Time is only a phase of Eternity.
-Aurobindo Ghose