Change your Perception of Time

With these 13 Inspirational Quotes

Toon Muylaert
4 min readMar 19, 2021

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal saying

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We may fool ourselves into thinking that a particular event happens at a particular time because we have decided that’s when we want it to happen, but we are only part of the story. The whole event must also want to happen before we can force it to take shape.

Patricio Domínguez

Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia © Toon Muylaert

The whole cosmos, the whole universe is here and now, both the distant past and the distant future, eternity is here and now.

Dogen Zenji

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As soon as we free ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time, we are alive again, as in childhood, to the ecstasies of ordinary life.

Alan Watts

Khorgo Uul volcano, Mongolia © Toon Muylaert

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

Sogyal Rinpoche - Tibetan Book of Living and Dying | read via Amazon

Annapurna , Nepal © Toon Muylaert

I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is, we were made for these times.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time, but the one point that is out of time, the Now.

Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now | order via Amazon

Pokhara, Nepal © Toon Muylaert

We are always at the beginning of things, in the fragile moment that holds the power of life. We are always at the morning of the world.

François Cheng

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The Western world thought the Earth was flat until only 500 years ago, until they discovered America, and realized that the Earth is round. It is a shame that it seems to be taking Western scientists about another 500 years to realize that time is also not flat. It too is really a great cycle.

Patricio Domínguez

Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan © Toon Muylaert

You’re the ones who’ve incarnated from the deepest moments of the future. You feel terribly strange with life nearly unexplainable on this planet at this current time. But you’re not the ones who are strange here, these times are strange.

Guru Singh

Phoukoun, Laos © Toon Muylaert

Time is related to you as numbers. We offer to you that number and time have no depth. These are merely programmed into the current mind as safeguards, to keep you in time and space. They are a function not really of mind, but of brain.

Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull – The Mystery of The Crystal Skulls | read via Amazon

Annapurna, Nepal © Toon Muylaert

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it.

Martha Graham

Logar Valley, Slovenia © Toon Muylaert

And still, after all this time, the sun has never said to the earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.

Rumi

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