The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
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A place for everything and everything in its place.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
