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For eternally and always there is only one now,

one and the same now; the present is the only

thing that has no end.

- Erwin Schrodinger

 

... time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra-sensory perception mushsmile.gif, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

- Frank Waters, Mountain Dialogues, 1981

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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere;

the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling;

vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal

dawn and glowing, on sea and continues and islands, each

in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

- John Muir

 

The bad news is time flies.

The good news is you're the pilot.

- Michael Althsuler

 

 

 

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. -Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Too Many Names

 

 

Mondays are meshed with Tuesdays

and the week with the whole year.

Time cannot be cut

with your weary scissors,

and all the names of the day

are washed out by the waters of night.

 

 

No one can claim the name of Pedro,

nobody is Rosa or Maria,

all of us are dust or sand,

all of us are rain under rain.

They have spoken to me of Venezuelas,

of Chiles and of Paraguays;

I have no idea what they are saying.

I know only the skin of the earth

and I know it is without a name.

 

 

When I lived amongst the roots

they pleased me more than flowers did,

and when I spoke to a stone

it rang like a bell.

 

 

It is so long, the spring

which goes on all winter.

Time lost its shoes.

A year is four centuries.

 

 

When I sleep every night,

what am I called or not called?

And when I wake, who am I

if I was not while I slept?

 

 

This means to say that scarcely

have we landed into life

than we come as if new-born;

let us not fill our mouths

with so many faltering names,

with so many sad formallities,

with so many pompous letters,

with so much of yours and mine,

with so much of signing of papers.

 

 

I have a mind to confuse things,

unite them, bring them to birth,

mix them up, undress them,

until the light of the world

has the oneness of the ocean,

a generous, vast wholeness,

a crepitant fragrance.

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