#resent

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#celebrate #comfort #death #importance #now

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#memory #names #now #present #time

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. ↗

— Rick Perlstein

#resentment #forgiveness

Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#letting-go-of-stuff #living-in-the-present #forgiveness

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#mother #present #you

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget. ↗

— Kaza Kingsley

#present #time #humor

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#extending #held #in the past #love #past

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#first #last #passed #present #present time

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#break #exciting #first #grow #more