“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
— Jacob Needleman
“Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.”
— Jacob Needleman
“If there are so many seekers, why are there so few finders?”
— Eckhart Tolle
“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.”
— Hagakure
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
— James Thurber
“Today, begin to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness.”
— A Course in Miracles
“It is the Consciousness with which we participate in activities that makes the difference.”
— Michael Beckwith
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Every moment, every task, is filled with miracles and blessings, waiting to be celebrated and illumined with the light of your radiant gaze.”
— William DeFoore