I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

il n’y a rien dans monde qui puisse entrer en comparaison avec l’éternité.

WE know no time when we were not as now..

And the end and the beginning were always there
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now.

Remember, there’s no greatness in the future. Or clarity. Or insight. Or happiness. Or peace. There is only this moment.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

"We have eternity, beloved."
"You may have eternity. I have only now."
"But this is eternity."

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.