“Happiness and success come from living in the present, not from existing in the past.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 174
Context: Humans need stories — grand compelling stories — that help to orient us in our lives in the cosmos. The Epic of Evolution is such a story, beautifully suited to anchor our search for planetary consensus, telling us of our nature, our place, our context. Moreover, responses to this story — what we are calling religious naturalism — can yield deep and abiding spiritual experiences. And then, after that, we need other stories as well, human-centered stories, a mythos that embodies our ideals and our passions. This mythos comes to us, often in experiences called revelation, from the sages and the artists of past and present times.

Saphira
Source: Eldest (2005)

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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.

Source: Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty and Western Culture (2007), p. 18.