“Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera” ThinkingWorldLoveHumansMeanEndsStatesRealityAgeSpiritHuman BeingsGracePleaseEternalEssenceCleanPassagesWipeVigorousInner LifeSlatePassage Of TimeAlphasCholeraAlpha And OmegaAging Process Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.” MenRealityGoalResultsTruth IsEternalHistoricalInventionLegendsMomentaryLegendaryHistorical Truth Author:Victor Hugo
“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.” MenRealityPassionHeavenUnderstandingEternalGloryIntellectTreasureNegationEmanateTreasures In Heaven Book:The Portable William Blake Source: The Portable William Blake
“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.” RealityGrowthStruggleMastersMountainEternalAbsolutesUnityCupsMidst Book:Look Homeward, Angel Source: Look Homeward, Angel
“What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.” ThinkingMindRealityLightPastRememberMemoriesSunMoonEternalReflectionFormerPaleProjectionBorrowedRemembering The Past Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.” ThinkingHeartLongDifferentSoulHelpingRealityWould BeChristianSufferingFightingNationsMy OwnSleepDestinyLandDangerousHugeMy HeartInvolvedEternalWestWesternDepthMy SoulAwakenedBrethrenCaptivesPersecutedQuietnessPlightVineyards Author:Richard Wurmbrand
“That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.” RealityEternalMakersGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.” SoulGodRealitySpiritualSpiritualityUniverseIndividualActivityQuietEternalConsciousSupremeAtman Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
“Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.” WantHeartMayMeanRealRealityDesireExpressionEternalIncreaseInfiniteLongingDevotionBuddhistDevotedSmallness Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.” WorldDoeRealityLawEvilHistoryTomorrowEternalTreatsMathematicsYesterdayMathematicalGood And EvilFormulasMathematicianShallowWorld History Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.” WorldRealityActionImaginePolicyEternalSuitsDisputes Author:Albert Sorel
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires” MenWayHeartEndsRealityEarthRomanceJoyDesireDarknessDivineHonorTasteDemandEternalGloryBlessedEvery ManSurrenderGreat ThingsEnduranceParadoxFrustratedSacramentsFaithfulnessFidelityLove RelationshipBlessed SacramentComplexionHearts Desire Author:J. R. R. Tolkien