Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Final accounting in the Estate of A.B. (1866) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/no_mans_life_liberty_or_property_are_safe_while_the_legislature_is_in_sessi/
“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”
Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)
Variant: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness. p. 43
The Power of Now (1997)
Source: The Alchemist
1830s, Illinois House Journal (1837)
Quoted in Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity (1945). London: Fontana Books, 1956, p. 25
“You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.”
A New Earth (2005)
