Related quotes
“Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IX : Faith, Hope, and Charity
“But the gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”
IV. 320 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
Context: I tell you all, with my Divine Authority, that you and I are not “WE,” but “ONE.” You unconsciously feel my Avatarhood within you; I consciously feel in you what each of you feel. Thus every one of us is Avatar, in the sense that everyone and everything is everyone and everything, at the same time, and for all time.
There is nothing but God. He is the only Reality, and we all are one in the indivisible Oneness of this absolute Reality. When the One who has realized God says, “I am God. You are God, and we are all one,” and also awakens this feeling of Oneness in his illusion-bound selves, then the question of the lowly and the great, the poor and the rich, the humble and the modest, the good and the bad, simply vanishes. It is his false awareness of duality that misleads man into making illusory distinctions and filing them into separate categories.
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity.”
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 33 (p. 475)
