Madonna House Staff Letter #140
“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
Patanjali, in "Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide", p. 205.
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) German philosopher (idealism)
System of Transcendental Philosophy (1800)
Context: How both the objective world accommodates to presentations in us, and presentations in us to the objective world, is unintelligible unless between the two worlds, the ideal and the real, there exists a pre-determined harmony. But this latter is itself unthinkable unless the activity, whereby the objective world, is produced, is at bottom identical with that which expresses itself in volition, and vice versa.
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Fa che ogni tuo istante sia sempre migliore di quello passato, si vive di presente per il futuro, si vive d'amore, musica, felicità e soprattutto coraggio nei momenti difficili.
Source: prevale.net
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.
“Interviewer: So between those two, if you lived in your own manga world, what would you be like?”
Hiromu Arakawa (1973) award winning Japanese manga artist
Interview with mobuta.com (2004)
