Linear Time Quotes

“Primed to expect that our lives will follow a predictable path, we’re thrown when they don’t. We have linear expectations but nonlinear realities... We’re all comparing ourselves to an ideal that no longer exists and beating ourselves up for not achieving it.”
― Bruce Feiler, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age

“Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time”
― Alan McGlashan, Savage & Beautiful Country

“Life isn’t really linear. Although it’s generally perceived that way. The stories we tell are woven like snakes around a divining rod. A center of time containing all that’s ever been told and heard. Remembered and forgotten. Lost and found. Our pasts, presents and futures are unwound, stretched flat, cut into pieces and held up with human arms.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

“There is no time. All things exist simultaneously. All events occur at once.

This Book is being written, and as it's being written it's already written; it already exists. In fact, that's where you're getting all this information - from the book that already exists. You're merely bringing it into form.

This is what is meant by: "Even before you ask, I will have answered."

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Time is experienced as a movement, a flow, rather than a constant. It is you who are moving, not time. Time has no movement. There is only One Moment.

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It is not time which "passes", but objects which pass through, and move around in, a static field which you call space. "Time" is simply your way of counting movments!

Scientists deeply understand this connection and therefore speak in terms of the "Space-Time Continuum.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“Don't tell me you believe in ghosts, Finn.'

'Ghosts, not exactly. Traces, yeah. Sort of.'

'Traces?'

'Here's my theory. Everything is energy. We all leave something behind. Now, there's folk who'll swear on their granny's last breath that they've seen a ghost. And I reckon some of them have. Or rather, they've seen traces of a past energy.'
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Finn was talking with his hands now, trying to make some sense. 'We think that time moves forward, in a linear fashion. Yeah? But sometimes you get deja vu, or there's some mad coincidence that you can't explain. I think time doesn't move in a linear fashion, but in a spiral, and sometimes there's echoes from the past. And a ghost is just an echo of someone.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches