“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.”

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

“A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.”

“For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered.”

“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”

“And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.”

“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

“You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”

“On visiting India this time, because of my previous visit, I did have a certain amount of knowledge about the country, but I also felt that there was much greater interest in Japan and deeper interaction between the two countries now than the last time I was there.”