Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Meister Eckhart, ( c. 1260-1327), German Christian mystic; He stressed the unity of God and the capacity of the individual soul to become one with God during life.