Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (2005)
Shikantaza: Living Fully In Each Moment (page 4)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)
Variant: Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
As Quoted in The Gerorgian Times in 2008 http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=12354.eng
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
“We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.”
Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.”
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”
