One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.
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Live your life in the NOW. Right NOW, THIS minute, THIS second.
Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.
The wind plays its own music.
Someday, Chinmay, perhaps when you are as old as I am, you will realize that we calibrate time as per our own convenience. The dates on the calendar do not matter by themselves, nor do the numbers on the clock. Only this moment counts, this moment alone, and that is because of the awareness that we bring to it.
He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and uncertainties of the future better