"The meeting of two eternities, the past..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
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“I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.”
“I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.”
“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.”
More on Present Moment
“If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.”
“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”
“Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.”
More on Time
“Let the new faces play what tricks they willIn the old rooms; night can outbalance day,Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,The living seem more shadowy than they.”
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.”
“Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.”