181 (II. 153)
ETERNITY
| What is Eternity? It is not That, not This, Not Now, not Aught, not Naught—I know not what it is. |
182 (II. 65)
ETERNITY IS NOT MEASURED
| Eternity knows naught of hour and day and year. Alas, I have not found the centre of its sphere! |
183 (II. 183)
IN THE CENTRE EVERYTHING IS SEEN
| Stand at the centre-point—instantly shall appear All that befell or now befalls, in Heaven and here. |
184 (I. 47)
TIME IS ETERNITY
| Eternity is one with Time, Time with Eternity, and hence Indifference between them lie, Thyself dost make the difference. |
185 (I. 189)
MAN MAKETH TIME
| 'Tis thou thyself that makest Time. And like a clock thy senses run: Do thou but quiet their unrest— The clock is stopped and Time is gone. |
186 (V. 23)
TIME IS NOT FAST
| "Time flieth fast" we say, but who Hath seen the fleeting of Time's wings? Time standeth moveless in a view That visioneth the Whole of Things. |
187 (V. 148)
IN ETERNITY ALL HAPPENETH TOGETHER
| There, in Eternity, events Together strike a single chime: There is no After, no Before, As here, as in the realm of Time. |
188 (IV. 200)
HOW TO SHORTEN TIME
| Man, if thou findest Time on earth drag on too slow. Turn unto God—live in the Everlasting Now. |
189 (V. 127)
THE SOUL IS ABOVE TIME
| The Soul, which is eternal Spirit, Standeth above Time's sovranty: Already in this present world She liveth in Eternity. |
190 (V. 111)
OUT OF GOD, LIVING IS BEING DEAD
| Livest thou not in God, O Man, —And let this be well credited— Though thou dost live a thousand years, A thousand years thou art dead. |
191 (II. 168)
ONE IS AS OLD AS THE OTHER
| A Child who on this earth but one short hour appears, Already he hath lived Methuselah's long years. |
192 (III. 180)
GOD KNOWETH NOT HIS BEGINNING
| How long hath God been God? Be silent, ask not this! So long, God knoweth not Himself how long it is. |
193 (IV. 165)
GOD STILL CREATES THE WORLD
| God still creates the World. Strange doth this thing appear? God knoweth neither Then nor Now, as men know here. |
194 (III. 90)
THOU MUST BLOSSOM NOW
| O blossom, blossom, frozen soul! May is abroad before thy door. If thou dost blossom not to-day Then art thou dead for evermore. |
195 (I. 185)
PLACE IS WITHIN THEE
| Nowise dost thou inhabit Place, Place doth inhabit thee. Cast Place away!—then now and here Standeth Eternity. |
196 (III. 112)
THE HEART IS IMMEASURABLE
| A Heart that finds its full contcnt in Time and Place In truth knows not its own Immeasurableness. |
197 (I. 187)
THE BREADTH OF THE SOUL
| Heaven is too little for me, Earth a narrow cell: Where shall I find a space wherein my Soul can dwell? |
198 (I. 188)
TIME AND ETERNITY
| From Time into Eternity Thou tellest me to get me hence! Between Eternity and Time Is there then any difference? |
199 (IV. 90)
VIRTUE
| "Virtue its own Reward"—so runs the argument: If the Reward be here, in time, then I dissent. |
200 (IV. 180)
THE DAY AND DAWN OF SOULS
| Here in this present time God dawns in souls, but soon, When they have put their splendour on, He'll be their noon. |
201 (V. 67)
HOW FAR THE WAY TO HEAVEN
| Think not the journey overlong if thou wouldst fare To Heaven—take but one short stride and thou art there. |
202 (I. 30)
THERE IS NO DEATH
| I disbelieve in Death. Hourly I die—what then? To new and better Life hourly I rise again. |
203 (I. 34)
DEATH DEIFIETH THEE
| When thou art dead and all thy life Is taken up by God in His, Then shalt thou rightly, nor till then, Rank with the all-high Deities. |
204 (IV. 81)
DEATH
| Death doth not trouble me. 'Tis through that door I come Unto the place which long hath been my spirit's home. |
205 (IV. 77)
SPIRITUAL DYING
| Die ere thou diest—dying, then thou diest not: Die not—perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot. |
206 (I. 29)
ETERNAL DEATH
| The Death which no new Life within itself doth bear, Of all deaths 'tis that death which most my soul doth fear. |
207 (IV. 103)
LIFE AND DEATH
| No richer death than that which Life engendereth, No noble Life than that which springeth out of death. |
208 (I. 190)
SAMENESS
| I know not what to do! All things are one to me: Place, Unplace, Day, Night, Joy, Pain, Time, Eternity. |