Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and...
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.For the most part, people do not know they will live their lives over. Traders do not know that they wi...
Some people believe that there is no distinction between the spiritual and physical universes, no distinction between the inner and the outer, between the subjective and the objective, between the mir...
As far as I know, all major religions that subscribe to a belief in God—including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism—believe that the universe was created by God at a finite time in the past....
A world with one month is a world of equality.
Indicate that the same fundamental principles, from which the laws of nature derive, lead to many different self-consistent universes, with many different properties. It is as if you walked into a sho...
Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
On occasion a traveler will venture from one city to another. Is he perplexed What took seconds in Berne might take hours in Fribourg or days in Lucerne. In the time for a leaf to fall in one place a...
It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised.
It [the mind] can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is so...
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their mo...
In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in reality and in the mind. In this world, no person can imagine the future. Imagining the f...
In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on...
He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?
Such is the cost immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past.
Maybe the moment is all there is. Maybe I should just gather my clamshells and be quiet. The exquisite experience of joy—when I am completely consumed by a pleasurable activity such as conversation wi...
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future,...