Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002), p. 93
“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”
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                                        Siddhartha (1922) 
Context: Listen my friend! I am a sinner and you are a sinner, but someday the sinner will be Brahma again, will someday attain Nirvana, will someday become a Buddha. Now this "someday" is illusion; it is only a comparison. The sinner is not on his way to a Buddha-like state; he is not evolving, although our thinking cannot conceive things otherwise. No, the potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there. The potential hidden Buddha must be recognized in him, in you, in everybody. The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life. It is not possible for one person to see how far another is on the way; the Buddha exits in robber and the dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin. During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
                                    
Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2002/june/060902c.html
                                        
                                        Thích Nhất Hạnh here quotes and interprets the "Ten Penetrations" of  the Avatamsaka Sutra 
The Sun My Heart (1996) 
Context: The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future." In the past, you can see the present and the future. In the present, you can find the past and future. In the future, you can find the past and present. They "inter-contain" each other. Space contains time, time contains space. In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are.
                                    
                                        
                                        Volume II, p. 1314 
War Memoirs (1938)
                                    
The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing, p. 170
                                        
                                        Abstract 
Object‐Oriented Design (2002)
                                    
“I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
                                        
                                        Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan. 
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)