"Is it possible not to think in terms of time, not to think in terms of what I shall be, what I
have been, what I am?"
The First and Last Freedom, p.128 |
"You cannot reject chronological time; it would be absurd - you would miss your train. But is there
really any time at all apart from chronological time? Obviously there is time as yesterday but is
there time as the mind thinks of it? Is there time apart from the mind? Surely time, psychological
time, is the product of the mind."
The First and Last Freedom, p.132 |
"A man who relies on time as a means through which he can gain happiness or realize truth or God is
merely deceiving himself; he is living in ignorance and therefore in conflict...
When the mind is still, tranquil, not seeking any answer or any solution, neither resisting nor avoiding - it is only then that there can be a regeneration, because then the mind is capable of perceiving what is true; and it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free." The First and Last Freedom, p.135 |