2 quotations linked to The Story of My Heart by or associated with Richard Jefferies, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Present time, eternity, mortality, consciousness, nature and an intensely personal metaphysical experience of the now.
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“It is eternity now.”
Jefferies collapses ordinary chronological distinctions into an intensely experienced present, describing the current moment as participation in eternity rather than a point merely passing toward the future.
Source note: The Story of My Heart, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #2317. This is Jefferies’s speculative spiritual autobiography and the statement is philosophical-poetic, not a scientific theory of time.
“Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
The repeated ‘now’ intensifies Jefferies’s claim that spiritual significance is experienced in the present rather than postponed to a distant future or afterlife.
Source note: The Story of My Heart, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #2317. Jefferies is articulating a personal metaphysical intuition, so the source note preserves its spiritual and literary character.