The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done.
The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless.
You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't just like we are because they lived in that very different time. You can't understand them if you don't understand how they perceived reality.
Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.
Spontaneity is being present in the present.
Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.
Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.
The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in our Constitution.
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc. . . ) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.