The Present will remind you of a forgotten Truth. You are not the body or mind, but the loving, radiant, divine energy that is God. In the Present, you fulfill your destiny as a spiritual being.

On more than one occasion I heard how life apparently advances, moves on, sets sail or, at worst, apparently crawls slowly forward. My life, on the other hand, simply exploded like a firecracker in the hand of God, a small flare in his mighty firmament of bombardment.

You can be a dreamer as long as you dont forget there's a reality and you are currently living it.

Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.

And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?...I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think." (p. 31)

Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through the worst days.

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.

Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flushed, laughing hysterically with pleasure. They were so vividly alive, completely immersed in the game. She tried to recall a time when she'd been that way and realized she couldn't remember when that had been. She'd lost the knack of forgetting herself. Instead she seemed to look down on herself throughout the day, scrutinizing, judging; finding herself wanting more.

The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. When we eat, we know we are eating,

When regret dominates your past and worry occupies your future, there is no room to live in your present.