Nothing begins, nothing ends...

There is really no progress from materiality to spirituality. There can be no shifting of the mind through time in the hope of finding eternity en route. The present moment is also the eternal now and, when properly understood, never changes.

An alert comprehension of the true meaning and precise inward significance of the present moment is the same as a comprehension of eternity, for the present slips and merges into eternity as the raindrop slips and merges into the ocean.

Thus the transient is not only an inlet to the everlasting, but is in reality. Nothing begins, nothing ends.



-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity >
Chapter 4: Time, Space, Causality > # 145
Paul Brunton