"He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands: as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles. he got up and scribbled down, without really waking, the mathematical formula that had been eluding him for days. He saw space shrink in upon him like the walls of a collapsing sphere driving in and in towards a central void, closing, closing..."
"The reality is pain--you said that! But it's the ies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It's the lies that make you want to kill yourself."
"...unless the past and the future were made part of the present by memory and intention, there was, in human terms, no road, nowhere to go..."
"we think that time 'passes,' flows past us, but what if it is we who move..."
"It is only in consciousness, it seems, that we experience time at all."
"In a dream there is no time, and succession is all changed about, and cause and effect are all mixed together. In myth and legend there is no time. What past is it the tale means when it says "Once upon a time'? And so, when the mystic makes the re-connection of his reason and his unconscious, he sees all becoming as one being, and understands the eternal return."
"Where is beginning or end? Infinite repetition is an atemporal process."
"...time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."
"Can one dismiss either being, or becoming, as an illusion?"
"it is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question..."
"You can only be the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution."
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners."
