"The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future."

-- Henepola Gunaratana

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.”
“I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.”
“He couldnâ€™t compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that heâ€™d gotten wet.”
“China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.”
“And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to lift the large, delicate cello onto the overhead rack, I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.”
“Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.”

Source : William Taylor (1876). “David, King of Israel”, p.37
“Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.”
“Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.”

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