The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every situation the one Jesus Christ.
(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.
I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you...you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.
The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.
…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.
There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.
Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.
It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.
Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.
Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
