“Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.” PeopleThinkingMomentsTeacherSubjectsEndlessEnlightenedPerpetualBeginnersBegin Again Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.” IdeasSelfMomentsSeemsUniverseGivenWishDifferencesSpaceExistenceSupportEventsCreationDivineUniqueFundamentalsConstantIslamWitnessManifestationPerpetualEvidentTime And SpaceDivine Will Author:Aga Khan III
“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?” PeopleLooksIdeasMomentsBodyEyeEmotionMiddleObjectsLowsMarkEmptinessInchesPerpetualCautiousUrgencyWrinklesApprehensionBack AgainMiddle AgedSideways Author:Virginia Woolf
“Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.” GivingMomentsNextInfluenceBirthEnlightenmentChainsWheelsPerpetualBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.” MomentsSufferingNamesProcessBornExistenceGrowingSeaDyingPeriodsLifetimeTinyWanderSymbolsWheelsPerpetualAgain And AgainReincarnationUp And DownGrowing OldFractionsSingle LifeSamsara Author:Gautama Buddha
“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.” KnowsWorldWellsTwoStatesMomentsBodyChangeThis WorldTasteAffectionPurityMisfortunesPerpetualTangledFluxYarn Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau