Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time

We will need to become more aware of and take precautions against the incredible pull of the Scylla and Charybdis of past and future, and the dreamworld they offer us in place of our lives.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Where Halloween is concerned, I peaked in 2007.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.