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Joy! I triumph! Now no more I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a><br />Myself as simply me. I burn with <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a><br />Unto myself, and bury me in love. ~ <a href="/wiki/Attar_of_Nishapur" title="Attar of Nishapur">Attar of Nishapur</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>A young man who had been troubling <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> with impalpable doctrines of a new <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> which he called "the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Heaven">Kingdom of Heaven</a>" had been put out of the way; and <b>I can <a href="/wiki/Imagine" class="mw-redirect" title="Imagine">imagine</a> that <a href="/wiki/Believer" class="mw-redirect" title="Believer">believer</a> in <a href="/wiki/Material" class="mw-redirect" title="Material">material</a> <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now."</b> Yes. The <a href="/wiki/Wind" title="Wind">wind</a> from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>, and shall blow for centuries yet.<b></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_William_Russell" title="George William Russell">Æ</a>, in <i>The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government</i> (1921), p. 23</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">Economics</a> is on the side of <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> now.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Currents_of_Space" class="extiw" title="w:The Currents of Space">The Currents of Space</a></i> (1952)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">Joy</a>! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a><br />Myself as simply me. I burn with <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a><br />Unto myself, and bury me in love.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Attar_of_Nishapur" title="Attar of Nishapur">Attar of Nishapur</a>, in "The Triumph of the Soul" as translated by Margaret Smith in <i>The Persian Mystics</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What I cannot do now is the <a href="/wiki/Sign" title="Sign">sign</a> of what I shall do hereafter.</b> The sense of impossibility is the <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a> of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> possibilities. Because this temporal <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Paradox" title="Paradox">paradox</a> and an impossibility, therefore the <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">Eternal</a> created it out of His being. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>, in <i>Thoughts and Glimpses</i> (1916-17)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>"I exist" does not follow from "there is a <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> now."</b> The <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a> that a thought occurs at a given <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> does not entail that any other thought has occurred at any other moment, still less that there has occurred a series of thoughts sufficient to constitute a single <a href="/wiki/Self" title="Self">self</a>. As <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">Hume</a> conclusively showed, no one event intrinsically points to any other. We infer the existence of events which we are not actually observing, with the help of general principle. But these principles must be obtained inductively. By mere deduction from what is immediately given we cannot advance a single step beyond. And, consequently, <b>any attempt to base a deductive system on propositions which describe what is immediately given is bound to be a failure.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Jules_Ayer" title="Alfred Jules Ayer">Alfred Jules Ayer</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language,_Truth,_and_Logic" class="extiw" title="w:Language, Truth, and Logic">Language, Truth, and Logic</a></i> (1936), p. 47</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diana_con_una_t%C3%BAnica_rosa_-_Rosalba_Carriera.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Diana_con_una_t%C3%BAnica_rosa_-_Rosalba_Carriera.jpg/220px-Diana_con_una_t%C3%BAnica_rosa_-_Rosalba_Carriera.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Diana_con_una_t%C3%BAnica_rosa_-_Rosalba_Carriera.jpg/330px-Diana_con_una_t%C3%BAnica_rosa_-_Rosalba_Carriera.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Diana_con_una_t%C3%BAnica_rosa_-_Rosalba_Carriera.jpg 2x" data-file-width="399" data-file-height="513" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/Initiation_(theosophy)" title="Initiation (theosophy)">Initiation</a> leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal Now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG/250px-Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG/330px-Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG/500px-Jacob_de_Gheyn_-_Vanitas.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2434" data-file-height="3722" /></a><figcaption>I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I <a href="/wiki/Died" class="mw-redirect" title="Died">died</a>, because there was no other <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">door</a>. Now I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> that I could've walked through the walls. ~ <a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Knot_of_Eternity.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Knot_of_Eternity.JPG/220px-Knot_of_Eternity.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Knot_of_Eternity.JPG/330px-Knot_of_Eternity.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Knot_of_Eternity.JPG/440px-Knot_of_Eternity.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1068" data-file-height="1068" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a> which we shall <a href="/wiki/See" class="mw-redirect" title="See">see</a>, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> now … all those places are <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a> to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> and <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>, tendrils of <a href="/wiki/Remembrance" class="mw-redirect" title="Remembrance">remembrance</a> round our <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>-strings. ~ <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Clerihew_Bentley" title="Edmund Clerihew Bentley">E. 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Bentley</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg/220px-Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg/330px-Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg/440px-Symbol_from_The_Incredibles_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="245" data-file-height="169" /></a><figcaption> I never look back, darling; it distracts from the now. ~ Edna Mode in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredibles" title="The Incredibles">The Incredibles</a></i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg/250px-G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg/330px-G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg/500px-G_W_Russell_Bathers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="566" data-file-height="431" /></a><figcaption><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> does ride in on the curl of the wave,<br />And you will <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> with me in the sunlit pools. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Carder_Bush" title="John Carder Bush">John Carder Bush</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Initiation_(theosophy)" title="Initiation (theosophy)">Initiation</a> leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">eternal Now</a>, wherein past, present, and future exist as one. p. 13 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a>, <i>Initiation, Human and Solar</i> (1922)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The majority of us control our <a href="/wiki/Body" title="Body">physical bodies</a> consciously, making them carry out our behests upon the physical plane. Some of us control our <a href="/wiki/Emotions" title="Emotions">emotions</a> consciously, but very few of us can control the <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>. Most of us are controlled by our <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desires</a>, and by our <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thoughts</a>. But the time is coming when we shall consciously control our threefold lower nature. Time will then not exist for us at all. We shall have that continuity of consciousness upon the three planes of being—physical, emotional, and mental—which will enable us to live as does the Logos, in that very metaphysical <a href="/wiki/Abstraction" title="Abstraction">abstraction</a>, the Eternal Now. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a>, <i>The Consciousness of the Atom</i> (1922)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I, who have not cried since my <a href="/wiki/Childhood" title="Childhood">childhood</a>, I cry now like a child because of all that I shall never have. I cry over lost <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> and grandeur. I <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> everything that I should have embraced.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Barbusse" title="Henri Barbusse">Henri Barbusse</a>, in <i>The Inferno</i> (1917), <i>L'Enfer</i>, as translated by Edward J. O'Brien (1918), Ch. XVII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have <a href="/wiki/Doubted" class="mw-redirect" title="Doubted">doubted</a>. <b>Now, I <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Barbusse" title="Henri Barbusse">Henri Barbusse</a>, in <i>Light</i> (1919), <i>Clarté</i>, as translated by Fitzwater Wray, Ch. XXII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[<a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche’s</a> doctrine of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eternal_return" class="extiw" title="w:eternal return">eternal return</a>] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don’t forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that “each moment of life ought to be motivated.” Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Bataille" title="Georges Bataille">Georges Bataille</a>, <i>On Nietzsche</i> (1945), p. xxxiii</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Molly pushed him aside and went up to the <a href="/wiki/Unicorn" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicorn">unicorn</a>, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. "<i>Where have you been?</i>" Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shining beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down. "<b>I am <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">here now</a></b>," she said at last. Molly laughed with her lips flat. "And what good is that to me that you're here now? Where were you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you come to me now, when I am <i>this</i>?" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn" title="The Last Unicorn">The Last Unicorn</a></i> (1968), Ch. VI</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The skull was <a href="/wiki/Laughing" class="mw-redirect" title="Laughing">laughing</a> again; this time making a thoughtful, almost kindly noise. "Remember what I told you about <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>," it said. "When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. <b>Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I <a href="/wiki/Died" class="mw-redirect" title="Died">died</a>, because there was no other <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">door</a>. Now I know that I could've walked through the walls.</b>" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn" title="The Last Unicorn">The Last Unicorn</a></i> (1968), Ch. XII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>. They were short words, undistinguished either by melody or harshness, and Schmendrick himself could not hear them for the Red Bull's dreadful bawling. But he knew what they <a href="/wiki/Meant" class="mw-redirect" title="Meant">meant</a>, and he knew exactly how to say them, and he knew that he could say them again when he wanted to, in the same way or in a different way. <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> he spoke them gently and with <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn" title="The Last Unicorn">The Last Unicorn</a></i> (1968), Ch. XIII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"<b>You are a true and mortal wizard <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>, as you always wished.</b> Does it make you <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a>?" <br /> "<b>Yes</b>," he replied with a quiet <a href="/wiki/Laugh" class="mw-redirect" title="Laugh">laugh</a>. "I'm not poor Haggard, to lose my <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desire</a> in the having of it." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn" title="The Last Unicorn">The Last Unicorn</a></i> (1968), Ch. XIV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unicorns" title="Unicorns">Unicorns</a> are in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> again. No <a href="/wiki/Sorrow" title="Sorrow">sorrow</a> will live in me as long as that <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> — save one. And I thank you for that part, too. <b>Farewell <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> <a href="/wiki/Magician" class="mw-redirect" title="Magician">magician</a>. I will try to go <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a> now.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle" title="Peter S. Beagle">Peter S. Beagle</a>, in <a href="/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film)" title="The Last Unicorn (film)"><i>The Last Unicorn</i> (1982 film)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my <a href="/wiki/True" class="mw-redirect" title="True">true</a> <a href="/wiki/Homes" class="mw-redirect" title="Homes">homes</a>." It is no <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> for those <a href="/wiki/Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophers">philosophers</a> who hold that <b>all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Clerihew_Bentley" title="Edmund Clerihew Bentley">E. C. Bentley</a> and H. Warner Allen, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent%27s_Own_Case" class="extiw" title="w:Trent's Own Case">Trent's Own Case</a></i> (1936), Chapter XV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I never look back, darling; it distracts from the now. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Bird" title="Brad Bird">Brad Bird</a>, in lines for Edna Mode in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredibles" title="The Incredibles">The Incredibles</a></i> (2004)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show? <br /> Why meanly bargain to <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a>, which only means thou ne'er canst <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a>? <br /> <b>How may the passing <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> contain the standing Now — <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">Eternity</a>? — <br /> An endless <i>is</i> without a <i>was</i> , the <i>be</i> and never the <i>to-be</i>?</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton" title="Richard Francis Burton">Richard Francis Burton</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kasidah" class="extiw" title="w:The Kasidah">The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî</a></i> (1870), IV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> line <br /> Whose <a href="/wiki/Ends" class="mw-disambig" title="Ends">ends</a> are nowhere, is thine <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a>, the puny all thou callest thine. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton" title="Richard Francis Burton">Richard Francis Burton</a>, in <i>The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî</i> (1870), IX</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Come over here to where When lingers,<br />Waiting in this empty <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>,<br />Waiting for Then, when the lifespray cools.<br /><b>For <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> does ride in on the curl of the wave,<br />And you will <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> with me in the sunlit pools.</b><br />We are of the going water and the gone.<br />We are of water in the <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">holy</a> land of water<br />And all that's to come runs in<br />With the thrust on the strand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Carder_Bush" title="John Carder Bush">John Carder Bush</a>, in a portion of the track "Jig of Life" which was actually written as well as spoken by him, on <a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush"> his sister Kate</a>'s album <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounds_of_Love" class="extiw" title="w:Hounds of Love">Hounds of Love</a></i> (1985).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arco_iris_circular.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Arco_iris_circular.JPG/220px-Arco_iris_circular.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Arco_iris_circular.JPG/330px-Arco_iris_circular.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Arco_iris_circular.JPG/440px-Arco_iris_circular.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Never was man brought into contact with <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> save through the evanescent <a href="/wiki/Emotions" title="Emotions">emotions</a> and sensations of that single moment, that infinitesimal fraction of a second, which was passing now… ~ <a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Friedrich_Kreuz_im_Wald.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Friedrich_Kreuz_im_Wald.jpg/250px-Friedrich_Kreuz_im_Wald.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Friedrich_Kreuz_im_Wald.jpg/330px-Friedrich_Kreuz_im_Wald.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Friedrich_Kreuz_im_Wald.jpg 2x" data-file-width="349" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>So shut your <a href="/wiki/Bibles" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibles">Bibles</a> up and show me how<br /> The <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> you talk about<br /> Is <a href="/wiki/Living" title="Living">living</a> now. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Carter" title="Sydney Carter">Sydney Carter</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Quaker_Star_JUL.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Quaker_Star_JUL.png/220px-Quaker_Star_JUL.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Quaker_Star_JUL.png/330px-Quaker_Star_JUL.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Quaker_Star_JUL.png/440px-Quaker_Star_JUL.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Now I see there is a <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> risen that I cannot win with <a href="/wiki/Gifts" title="Gifts">gifts</a> or <a href="/wiki/Honours" class="mw-redirect" title="Honours">honours</a>, offices or places; but all other <a href="/wiki/Sects" class="mw-redirect" title="Sects">sects</a> and people I can. ~ <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>seeming's enough for <a href="/wiki/Slaves" class="mw-redirect" title="Slaves">slaves</a> of <a href="/wiki/Space" title="Space">space</a> and <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a><br /> —ours is the now and here of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>. Come ~ <a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg/220px-CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg/330px-CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg/440px-CumulonimbusFlorida.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption>the cunning the craven <br /> … they <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">live</a> for until<br /> though the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> in his <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a><br /> says <b>Now</b> ~ <a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>To-day alone was real. Never was man brought into contact with <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> save through the evanescent <a href="/wiki/Emotions" title="Emotions">emotions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sensations" class="mw-redirect" title="Sensations">sensations</a> of that single <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a>, that infinitesimal fraction of a second, which was passing now — and it was in the insignificance of this moment, precisely, that religious persons must believe.</b> So ran the teachings of all <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a> and lingering <a href="/wiki/Faiths" class="mw-redirect" title="Faiths">faiths</a> alike. Here was, perhaps, only another instance of <a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">mankind</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Abhorrence" title="Abhorrence">abhorrence</a> of actualities; and man's quaint dislike of facing reality was here disguised as a high <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Principle">principle</a>. <b>That was why <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a>, which strove to make the sensations of a moment <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>-satisfying, was dimly felt to be irreligious. For art performed what religion only promised.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cream_of_the_Jest" class="extiw" title="w:The Cream of the Jest">The Cream of the Jest</a></i> (1917), Ch. 26 : "Epper Si Muove"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Now</b>, the <a href="/wiki/Redemption" class="mw-redirect" title="Redemption">redemption</a> which we as yet await (continued Imlac), will be that of <a href="/wiki/Kalki" title="Kalki">Kalki</a>, who will come as a Silver Stallion: all <a href="/wiki/Evils" class="mw-redirect" title="Evils">evils</a> and every sort of folly will perish at the coming of this Kalki: true <a href="/wiki/Righteousness" title="Righteousness">righteousness</a> will be restored, and the <a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">minds</a> of <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> will be made as clear as crystal. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell" title="James Branch Cabell">James Branch Cabell</a>, in the epigraph of <i>The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption</i> (1926), based upon the style of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rasselas,_Prince_of_Abissinia" class="extiw" title="w:The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia">The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia</a></i> (1759), using a fictional reference to Imlac the philosopher in Johnson's tale.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">Eternity</a> isn't some later <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">here and now</a> which <a href="/wiki/Thinking" class="mw-redirect" title="Thinking">thinking</a> and time cuts out.</b> This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. <b>And the <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> of eternity right here and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> is the function of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>.</b> There's a wonderful formula that the <a href="/wiki/Buddhists" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhists">Buddhists</a> have for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" class="extiw" title="w:Bodhisattva">Bodhisattva</a>, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. <b>And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> and to come back and participate in it.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" title="Joseph Campbell">Joseph Campbell</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth" class="extiw" title="w:The Power of Myth">The Power of Myth</a></i> (1988) with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Moyers" title="Bill Moyers">Bill Moyers</a>, Episode 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Your holy hearsay is not <a href="/wiki/Evidence" title="Evidence">evidence</a>.<br /> Give me the <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> news in the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> tense.</b><br /> What happened nineteen hundred years ago<br /> May not have happened.<br /> How am I to know?<br /> <b>So shut your Bibles up and show me how<br /> The <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> you talk about<br /> Is <a href="/wiki/Living" title="Living">living</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Carter" title="Sydney Carter">Sydney Carter</a>, in "Present Tense"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What a sublime doctrine it is, that <a href="/wiki/Goodness" title="Goodness">goodness</a> cherished now is eternal <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> already entered on!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing" title="William Ellery Channing">William Ellery Channing</a>, as quoted in <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 210</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Do not <a href="/wiki/Despair" title="Despair">despair</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Misery" title="Misery">misery</a> that is now upon us is but the passing of <a href="/wiki/Greed" title="Greed">greed</a> — the bitterness of men who <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> the way of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">progress</a>.</b> The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> will never perish. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator" class="extiw" title="w:The Great Dictator">The Great Dictator</a></i> (1940)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In our <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> the <a href="/wiki/Blasphemies" class="mw-redirect" title="Blasphemies">blasphemies</a> are threadbare. Pessimism is <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than <a href="/wiki/Piety" title="Piety">piety</a>.</b> Profanity is now more than an affectation — it is a convention. The <a href="/wiki/Curse" class="mw-redirect" title="Curse">curse</a> against <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, in the "Introduction" of <i>The Defendant</i> (1901)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The cause which is blocking <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">progress</a> today is the subtle <a href="/wiki/Scepticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Scepticism">scepticism</a> which whispers in a million ears that things are not <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> enough to be <a href="/wiki/Worth" title="Worth">worth</a> improving. If the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> is good we are <a href="/wiki/Revolutionaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolutionaries">revolutionaries</a>, if the world is <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a> we must be <a href="/wiki/Conservatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservatives">conservatives</a>.</b> These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet <a href="/wiki/Ethically" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethically">ethically</a> <a href="/wiki/Sincere" class="mw-redirect" title="Sincere">sincere</a>, since they seek to remind men that things must be <a href="/wiki/Loved" class="mw-redirect" title="Loved">loved</a> first and improved afterwards. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, "In Defence Of A New Edition" - Preface to the second edition of <i>The Defendant</i> (1902)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them.</b> This is an <a href="/wiki/Opportunity" title="Opportunity">opportunity</a>! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, a temporal tipping point. <b>The <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> revolves around you, here, now, so do <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a>!</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chibnall" class="extiw" title="w:Chris Chibnall">Chris Chibnall</a>, in lines written for the <a href="/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor" title="Eleventh Doctor">11th incarnation</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Doctor" title="The Doctor">the Doctor</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Blood_(Doctor_Who)" class="extiw" title="w:Cold Blood (Doctor Who)">Cold Blood</a>" (29 May 2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">Spirituality</a> tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> Now.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy" title="Sri Chinmoy">Sri Chinmoy</a>, in <i>Everest Aspiration</i> (1977)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>If you really want to love <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>, then you have to love humanity as it is now.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy" title="Sri Chinmoy">Sri Chinmoy</a>, in <i>The Wings of Joy</i> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Anton Chigurh</b>: What time do you close?</li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Gas Station Proprietor</b>: Now. We close now.</dd> <dd><b>Anton Chigurh</b>: Now is not a time. What time do you close? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film)" title="No Country for Old Men (film)">No Country for Old Men (film)</a> screenplay by <a href="/wiki/Coen_brothers" title="Coen brothers">Joel Coen and Ethan Coen</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impermanence" title="Impermanence">Impermanence</a> becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n" title="Pema Chödrön">Pema Chödrön</a>, <i>When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times</i> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The natural quality of mind is clear, awake, alert, and knowing. Free from fixation. By training in being present, we come to know the nature of our mind. So the more you train in being present - being right here - the more you begin to feel like your mind is sharpening up. The mind that can come back to the present is clearer and more refreshed, and it can better weather all the ambiguities, pains, and paradoxes of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n" title="Pema Chödrön">Pema Chödrön</a>, <i>How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind</i> (2008)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n" title="Pema Chödrön">Pema Chödrön</a>, <i>How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind</i> (2008)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">Nothing</a> is there to come, and nothing <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, <br /> But an eternal Now does always last. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Cowley" title="Abraham Cowley">Abraham Cowley</a>, in <i>Davideis</i>, Book I, line 360</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Now I see there is a <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other <a href="/wiki/Sects" class="mw-redirect" title="Sects">sects</a> and people I can.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>, as quoted in <i>Autobiography of George Fox</i> (1694) by <a href="/wiki/George_Fox" title="George Fox">George Fox</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>on forever's very now we stand</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in 50, in <i>50 Poems</i> (1940)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>—tommorow is our permanent address <br /> and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,<br /><b> we'll move away still further:into now</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in XXXIX, in <i>1 x 1</i> (1944)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Though you are as <a href="/wiki/Honest" class="mw-redirect" title="Honest">honest</a> as the day, <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hate">hate</a> the <a href="/wiki/Liar" class="mw-redirect" title="Liar">liar</a>. <b>Fear and hate him when he should be feared and hated:now. Fear and hate him were he should be feared and hated:in <a href="/wiki/Yourselves" class="mw-redirect" title="Yourselves">yourselves</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in an essay in the anthology <i>The War Poets</i> (1945) edited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Williams" class="extiw" title="w:Oscar Williams">Oscar Williams</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>more each particular person is(my love)<br /> alive than every world can <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a><br /><b> and now you are and i am now and we're<br /> a <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> that will never happen again, a <a href="/wiki/Miracle" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle">miracle</a> which has never happened before— <br /> and shining this our now must come to then</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in 69, in <i>XAIPE</i> (1950)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>,for <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> us,is now</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in the Introduction to <i>Poems 1924-1954</i> (1954)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>seeming's enough for <a href="/wiki/Slaves" class="mw-redirect" title="Slaves">slaves</a> of <a href="/wiki/Space" title="Space">space</a> and <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a><br /><b> —ours is the now and here of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>. Come</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in 73, in <i>95 poems</i> (1958)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dreamtree</a>,truthtree <a href="/wiki/Tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Tree">tree</a> of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial merely)existence,<b>all when may not measure a now of your treasure</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in 90, in <i>95 poems</i> (1958)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>the cunning the craven <br /> … they live for until<br /> though the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> in his <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a><br /> says <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>, in 29, in <i>73 poems</i> (1963)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Well, you can stay there if you want! … But right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead_Nebula" class="extiw" title="w:Horsehead Nebula">Horsehead Nebula</a>.</b> Fires are burning ten million miles wide! I could fly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS" class="extiw" title="w:TARDIS">TARDIS</a> right into the heart of it and ride the shockwave all the way out. Hurtled right across the sky and end up anywhere! Your choice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russell_T_Davies" title="Russell T Davies">Russell T Davies</a>, in lines written for the <a href="/wiki/Ninth_Doctor" title="Ninth Doctor">9th incarnation</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Doctor" title="The Doctor">the Doctor</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Three_(Doctor_Who)" class="extiw" title="w:World War Three (Doctor Who)">World War Three</a>" (23 April 2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The whole time of my life may be divided into an infinity of parts, each of which is in no way dependent on any other; and, accordingly, <b>because I was in existence a short time ago, it does not follow that I must now exist, unless in this <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> some cause create me anew as it were, — that is, conserve me.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" title="René Descartes">René Descartes</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QIUNAQAAIAAJ"><i>Meditations on First Philosophy</i></a> (1641) Meditation III</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is <i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a></i> that we are one with <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Doherty" title="Catherine Doherty">Catherine Doherty</a>, in <i>Love One Another</i> (2002)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman.</b> That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they <a href="/wiki/Laugh" class="mw-redirect" title="Laugh">laugh</a> at me — and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man" class="extiw" title="w:The Dream of a Ridiculous Man">The Dream of a Ridiculous Man</a>" (1877) - <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man" class="extiw" title="s:The Dream of a Ridiculous Man">Full text online at Wikisource</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Yes, I dreamed a <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>, my dream of the <a href="/wiki/3_November" class="mw-redirect" title="3 November">third of November</a>. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream.</b> But does it matter whether it was a dream or <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, if the dream made known to me the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>, in "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Come writers and critics, <br /> Who prophesize with your pen <br /> And keep your eyes wide, <br /> The <a href="/wiki/Chance" title="Chance">chance</a> won't come again <br /> <b>And don't <a href="/wiki/Speak" class="mw-redirect" title="Speak">speak</a> too soon, <br /> For the wheel's still in spin <br /> And there's no tellin' who <br /> That it's <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">namin'</a> <br /> For the loser now <br /> Will be later to win...<br /> For the times they are a-changin'.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_a-Changin%27_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)">The Times They Are a-Changin'</a>", on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_A-Changin%27" class="extiw" title="w:The Times They Are A-Changin'">The Times They Are A-Changin'</a></i> (1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The line it is drawn <br /> The curse it is cast<br /><b>The slow one now<br />Will later be fast<br />As the present now<br />Will later be past</b><br />The order is rapidly fadin’<br />And the first one now will later be last<br /><b>For the times they are a-changin’.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, in "The Times They Are a-Changin'", on <i>The Times They Are A-Changin'</i> (1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_(1894).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_%281894%29.jpg/250px-The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_%281894%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_%281894%29.jpg/330px-The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_%281894%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_%281894%29.jpg/440px-The_Rose_from_Armida%27s_Garden_by_Marie_Spartali_Stillman_%281894%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="490" data-file-height="699" /></a><figcaption>The single <a href="/wiki/Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose">Rose</a> <br /> Is now the <a href="/wiki/Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Garden">Garden</a> <br /> Where all <a href="/wiki/Loves" class="mw-redirect" title="Loves">loves</a> <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arlequin,_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne,_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Arlequin%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne%2C_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg/220px-Arlequin%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne%2C_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="351" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Arlequin%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne%2C_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg/330px-Arlequin%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne%2C_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Arlequin%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne%2C_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg/440px-Arlequin%2C_par_Paul_C%C3%A9zanne%2C_National_Gallery_of_Art.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="3226" /></a><figcaption>Now he had form and substance. <br /> He had become a <a href="/wiki/Personality" title="Personality">personality</a>, something they had filtered out of the <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a> many decades ago. ~ <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>In old days there were <a href="/wiki/Angels" title="Angels">angels</a> who came and took men by the <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a> and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now.</b> But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.<b></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Marner" class="extiw" title="w:Silas Marner">Silas Marner</a></i> (1861)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><a href="/wiki/Teach" class="mw-redirect" title="Teach">Teach</a> us to care and not to care <br /> Teach us to sit still.</p> <p> <b><a href="/wiki/Pray" class="mw-redirect" title="Pray">Pray</a> for us <a href="/wiki/Sinners" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinners">sinners</a> now and at the hour of our <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a></b> <br /> Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_(poem)" class="extiw" title="w:Ash Wednesday (poem)">Ash-Wednesday</a></i> (1930)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The single <a href="/wiki/Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose">Rose</a> <br /> Is now the <a href="/wiki/Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Garden">Garden</a> <br /> Where all <a href="/wiki/Loves" class="mw-redirect" title="Loves">loves</a> <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a>, in <i>Ash-Wednesday</i> (1930)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Now he had form and substance. <br /> He had become a <a href="/wiki/Personality" title="Personality">personality</a>, something they had filtered out of the <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a> many decades ago.</b> But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain <a href="/wiki/Circles" title="Circles">circles</a> — middle-class circles — it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarchistic</a>. Shameful. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Repent,_Harlequin!%22_Said_the_Ticktockman" class="extiw" title="w:"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman">"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"</a> (1965)</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg/220px-Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg/330px-Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg/440px-Thich_Nhat_Hanh2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="875" data-file-height="934" /></a><figcaption>We have more possibilities available in each <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> than we realize. ~ <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg/220px-IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg/330px-IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg/440px-IllumiNations_Earth_Globe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2512" data-file-height="1675" /></a><figcaption>Building your dream has to start now, <br /> There's no other road to take… ~ Kira, in <a href="/wiki/Xanadu_(film)" title="Xanadu (film)"><i>Xanadu</i> (1980)</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg/220px-010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg/330px-010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg/440px-010712_STS104_Atlantis_launch_glow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1996" /></a><figcaption>Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>. ~ </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Miles above the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> we <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a>,<br />Fancy's rocket roars. Below,<br /><b>Here and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> are needles which<br />Sew a pattern black as pitch,<br />Waiting for the rocket's light.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a>, in "Imagination" in <i>America Sings</i> (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> we have lit a candle to the power<br />Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a><br />Itself...</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a>, in "Sestina of the Space Rocket" first published in <i>Startling Stories</i> (February 1953); re-published in <i>Pearls From Peoria</i> (2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Caught <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">Beauty</a>, held to light, now apes<br />A good, now evil, thing — the shifting <a href="/wiki/Sign" title="Sign">sign</a><br />And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a>, in "Job's Leviathan" in <i>JD Argassy</i> #58 (1961); re-published in <i>Pearls From Peoria</i> (2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Building your <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> has to start now, <br /> There's no other road to take <br /> You won't make a mistake, I'll be guiding you.</i> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar" class="extiw" title="w:John Farrar">John Farrar</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(Olivia_Newton-John_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Magic (Olivia Newton-John song)">Magic</a>", written for the character Kira, in <a href="/wiki/Xanadu_(film)" title="Xanadu (film)"><i>Xanadu</i> (1980)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/220px-Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/330px-Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/440px-Patrick_Stewart_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2568" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Seize the <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, Meribor. <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">Live</a> now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(TNG_episode)" class="extiw" title="w:The Inner Light (TNG episode)">The Inner Light</a></i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Jest" class="mw-redirect" title="Jest">jest</a>; and <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> things show it. I <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> so once; and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> it.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Gay" title="John Gay">John Gay</a>, in <i>My Own Epitaph</i>, inscribed on Gay’s monument in Westminster Abbey; also quoted as "I thought so once; but now I know it".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Seize the <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, Meribor. <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">Live</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Gendel" class="extiw" title="w:Morgan Gendel">Morgan Gendel</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Allan_Fields" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Allan Fields">Peter Allan Fields</a>, in lines written for <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(TNG_episode)" class="extiw" title="w:The Inner Light (TNG episode)">The Inner Light</a></i>, the 25th episode of the 5th season of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation" title="Star Trek: The Next Generation">Star Trek: The Next Generation</a></i> (1 June 1992)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I create each hour’s newness by forgetting yesterday completely. Having been happy is never enough for me. I don’t believe in dead things. What’s the difference between no longer being and never having been? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide" title="André Gide">André Gide</a>, Ménalque in <i>The Immoralist</i>, R. Howard trans., p. 111</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I <a href="/wiki/Expect" class="mw-redirect" title="Expect">expect</a> to pass through this <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> but once. Any <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a>, therefore, that I can do or any <a href="/wiki/Kindness" title="Kindness">kindness</a> I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.</b> <ul><li>This, and variants of it, have been been widely circulated as a <b><a href="/wiki/Quaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker">Quaker</a> saying</b> since at least 1869, and attributed to the Quaker activist <b><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Grellet" title="Stephen Grellet">Stephen Grellet</a></b> since at least 1893. W. Gurney Benham in <i>Benham's Book of Quotations, Proverbs, and Household Words</i> (1907) states that though sometimes attributed to others, "there seems to be some authority in favor of Stephen Grellet being the author, but the passage does not appear in any of his printed works." It appears to have been published as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1859, when it appeared in <i>Household Words : A Weekly Journal</i>. It has also often become attributed to the more famous Quaker <a href="/wiki/William_Penn" title="William Penn">William Penn</a>, as well as others including <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>. Some anecdotes related to this are at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/ab3orphanquote.php">in "Truth : I Expect To Pass Through This World But Once" by M D Magee at <i>Ask Why</i> (14 October 2009)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I would like to offer one short poem you can recite from time to time, while breathing and smiling:<br />Breathing in, I calm my body.<br />Breathing out, I smile.<br />Dwelling in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">present moment</a><br />I know this is a wonderful moment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Being Peace</i> (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We tend to be alive in the future, not now. We say, "Wait until I finish school and get my Ph.D. degree, and then I will be really alive." When we have it, and it wasn't easy to get, we say to ourselves, "I have to wait until I have a job in order to be really alive." And then after the job, a car. After the car, a house. We are not capable of being alive in the present moment. We tend to postpone being alive to the future, the distant future, we don't know when. Now is not the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life. Therefore, the technique, if we have to speak of a technique, is to be in the present moment, to be aware that we are here and now, and the only moment to be alive is the present moment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Being Peace</i> (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">present moment</a>, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Touching Peace</i> (1992), p. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would like to offer one short poem you can recite from time to time, while breathing and smiling:<br />Breathing in, I calm my body.<br />Breathing out, I smile.<br />Dwelling in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">present moment</a><br />I know this is a wonderful moment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Being Peace</i> (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We tend to be alive in the future, not now. We say, "Wait until I finish school and get my Ph.D. degree, and then I will be really alive." When we have it, and it wasn't easy to get, we say to ourselves, "I have to wait until I have a job in order to be really alive." And then after the job, a car. After the car, a house. We are not capable of being alive in the present moment. We tend to postpone being alive to the future, the distant future, we don't know when. Now is not the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life. Therefore, the technique, if we have to speak of a technique, is to be in the present moment, to be aware that we are here and now, and the only moment to be alive is the present moment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Being Peace</i> (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">present moment</a>, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Touching Peace</i> (1992), p. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a class="mw-selflink selflink">present moment</a><br />contains past and future.<br />The secret of transformation,<br />is in the way we handle this very moment.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a> in <i>Understanding Our Mind</i> (2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Native" class="extiw" title="w:The Return of the Native">The Return of the Native</a></i> (1878)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are ways to <i>really</i> live in the present moment. What's the alternative? <b>It is always now.</b> However much you feel you may need to plan for the future, to anticipate it, to mitigate risks, the reality of your life is now. This may sound trite … but it's the truth. … As a matter of conscious experience, the reality of your life is always now. I think this is a liberating truth about the human mind. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand about your mind than that, if you want to be happy in this world. The past is a memory. It's a thought arising in the present. The future is merely anticipated, it is another thought arising now. What we truly have is this moment. And this. And we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth. Repudiating it. Fleeing it. Overlooking it. And the horror is that we succeed. We manage to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there because we are continually hoping to become happy in the future, and the future never arrives. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Harris" title="Sam Harris">Sam Harris</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums&t=21m21s">"Death and the Present Moment"</a>, speech at the Global Atheist Convention (April 2012)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And if not now, when? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder" title="Hillel the Elder">Hillel the Elder</a> Hillel, Pirke Avot I.14, translated Charles Taylor</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">Time</a> will bring to <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <i>Epistles</i>, I. 6. 24</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now is the time for <a href="/wiki/Drinking" class="mw-redirect" title="Drinking">drinking</a>, now the time to <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> footloose upon the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carminum_liber_primus" class="extiw" title="w:Carminum liber primus">Odes</a></i> (c. 23 BC) Book I, Ode xxxvii, line 1</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monad.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Monad.svg/220px-Monad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Monad.svg/330px-Monad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Monad.svg/440px-Monad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Pythagoreans" class="mw-redirect" title="Pythagoreans">Pythagoreans</a> called the <a href="/wiki/Monad" class="mw-redirect" title="Monad">monad</a> "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous" class="extiw" title="w:Nous">intellect</a>" because they thought that intellect was akin to <a href="/wiki/The_One" class="mw-redirect" title="The One">the One</a>; for among the <a href="/wiki/Virtues" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtues">virtues</a>, they likened the monad to <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>; for what is correct is one. And they called it … the instant <b>now</b> in <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>," and moreover they call it "<a href="/wiki/Ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship">ship</a>," "chariot," "<a href="/wiki/Friend" class="mw-redirect" title="Friend">friend</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>". ~ <a href="/wiki/Iamblichus" title="Iamblichus">Iamblichus</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Pythagoreans" class="mw-redirect" title="Pythagoreans">Pythagoreans</a> called the <a href="/wiki/Monad" class="mw-redirect" title="Monad">monad</a> "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous" class="extiw" title="w:Nous">intellect</a>" because they thought that intellect was akin to <a href="/wiki/The_One" class="mw-redirect" title="The One">the One</a>; for among the <a href="/wiki/Virtues" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtues">virtues</a>, they likened the monad to <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>; for what is correct is one. And they called it "<a href="/wiki/Being" title="Being">being</a>," "cause of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Simple" class="mw-redirect" title="Simple">simple</a>," "paradigm," "<a href="/wiki/Order" title="Order">order</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Concord" class="mw-redirect" title="Concord">concord</a>," "what is equal among the greater and the lesser," "the mean between intensity and slackness," "<a href="/wiki/Moderation" title="Moderation">moderation</a> in plurality,"<b> "the instant <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> in <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>," and moreover they call it "<a href="/wiki/Ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship">ship</a>," "chariot," "<a href="/wiki/Friend" class="mw-redirect" title="Friend">friend</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>."</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iamblichus" title="Iamblichus">Iamblichus</a> of Chalcis, in <i>The Theology of Arithmetic</i>, as translated by Robin Waterfield, as <i>The Theology of Arithmetic : On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers</i> (1988)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Godhead" title="Godhead">Godhead</a>, according to <a href="/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Eckhart</a>, is <b>the <a href="/wiki/Universal" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal">universal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">Unity</a> comprehending and transcending <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> diversity.</b> "The Divine nature is Rest," he says in one of the German discourses; and in the Latin fragments we find: "God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him." … <b>The ideal world was not created in time</b>; "the Father spake Himself and all the creatures in His Son";<b> "they exist in the eternal Now" —"a becoming without a becoming, change without change." </b> "The Word of God the Father it the <a href="/wiki/Substance" title="Substance">substance</a> of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> that exists, the <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> of all that lives, the <a href="/wiki/Principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Principle">principle</a> and cause of life." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ralph_Inge" title="William Ralph Inge">William Ralph Inge</a> in <i>Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages</i> (1904), p. xx</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There are now many invisible people on stage.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco" title="Eugène Ionesco">Eugène Ionesco</a>, in stage directions for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chairs" class="extiw" title="w:The Chairs">The Chairs</a></i> (1952)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>How keen in <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> your <a href="/wiki/Swords" class="mw-redirect" title="Swords">swords</a>! <br /> <b>But now 'tis <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>'s turn; <br /> Now let your rivals <a href="/wiki/Learn" class="mw-redirect" title="Learn">learn</a> <br /> How keen can be your <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian Augustus (Roman emperor)</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/Julian_Caesares_Symposium_Kronia.htm"><i>The Caesars</i> aka <i>Symposium</i> aka <i>Kronia</i> (361 CE), as translated by Wilmer Cave Wright</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg/250px-Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg/330px-Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg/500px-Rainbow_droplet_630x441.jpg 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="441" /></a><figcaption> All that is required to feel that here and now is <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> is a simple, frugal heart. ~ <a href="/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis" title="Nikos Kazantzakis">Nikos Kazantzakis</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek" title="Zorba the Greek">Zorba the Greek</a></i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rainbow1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Rainbow1.svg/220px-Rainbow1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Rainbow1.svg/330px-Rainbow1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Rainbow1.svg/440px-Rainbow1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Consider now the token of the covenant which <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> gave to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" class="extiw" title="w:Noah">Noah</a>. It was the <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a>. What is the rainbow? <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a><a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> turned back to our <a href="/wiki/Eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Eye">eye</a>, through drops of falling <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a>. What <a href="/wiki/Sign" title="Sign">sign</a> could be more <a href="/wiki/Simple" class="mw-redirect" title="Simple">simple</a>? And yet what sign could be more <a href="/wiki/Perfect" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfect">perfect</a>? ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I could die right now, I'm just … happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" class="extiw" title="w:Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gondry" class="extiw" title="w:Michel Gondry">Michel Gondry</a>, in lines written for the character Joel Barish, in <i><a href="/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind" title="Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</a></i> (2004)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am <a href="/wiki/Free" class="mw-redirect" title="Free">free</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis" title="Nikos Kazantzakis">Nikos Kazantzakis</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saviors_of_God" class="extiw" title="w:The Saviors of God">The Saviors of God</a></i> (1923)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>All that is required to feel that here and now is <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> is a simple, frugal heart.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis" title="Nikos Kazantzakis">Nikos Kazantzakis</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek" title="Zorba the Greek">Zorba the Greek</a></i> (1946), Ch. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><i><b>Always thought that life was just a drag <br /> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> this daisy's got a brand new bag <br /> Hey world take a good look at me.</b> </i></p><p><i>Though I'm flying high as a kite, <br /> What turns me on is the sight of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, <br /> The grooviest trip of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> — <br /> Best kick I've ever had, <br /> So tell me what's so bad about feeling good?</i></p> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Keller" class="extiw" title="w:Jerry Keller">Jerry Keller</a> and Dave Blume, in the song sung during the awakening of Greenwich Villagers, in <i><a href="/wiki/What%27s_So_Bad_About_Feeling_Good%3F" title="What's So Bad About Feeling Good?">What's So Bad About Feeling Good?</a></i> (1968)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O! hearken well, for soon the song sings through<br />And, would we hear it, we must hear it now.<br />The bird of life is singing in the sun,<br />Short is his song, nor only just begun,—<br />A call, a trill, a rapture, then—so soon!—<br />A silence, and the song is done—is done.<br />Yea! what is man that deems himself divine?<br />Man is a flagon, and his soul the wine;<br />Man is a reed, his soul the sound therein;<br />Man is a lantern, and his soul the shine.<br />Would you be happy! hearken, then, the way:<br />Heed not tomorrow, heed not yesterday;<br />The magic words of life are here and now—<br />O fools, that after some tomorrow stray! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m" title="Omar Khayyám">Omar Khayyám</a>, <i>Rubáiyát</i>, R. Le Gallienne, trans.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Truly, if at one time it was difficult to become a Christian, I believe now it becomes more difficult year by year, because it has now become so easy to become one; there is a bit of competition only in becoming a speculative thinker. … The thesis that God has existed in human form, was born, grew up; is certainly the paradox in the strictest sense, the absolute paradox. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concluding_Unscientific_Postscript_to_Philosophical_Fragments" class="extiw" title="w:Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments">Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments</a></i> (1846), Part One – The Objective Issue Of The Truth Of Christianity</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just as in the great <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, <b>now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concluding_Unscientific_Postscript_to_Philosophical_Fragments" class="extiw" title="w:Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments">Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments</a></i> (1846), The Issue in Fragments: How Can an Eternal Happiness Be Built on Historical Knowledge?</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Consider now the token of the covenant which <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> gave to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" class="extiw" title="w:Noah">Noah</a>. It was the <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a>.</b> What is the rainbow? Sunlight turned back to our eye, through drops of falling rain. What sign could be more simple? And yet what sign could be more perfect?<b> … Do not fear the clouds and storm and rain; look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still. That up above, beyond the cloud, is still sunlight, and warmth, and cloudless blue sky.</b> Believe in God's covenant. Believe that the sun will conquer the clouds, warmth will conquer cold, calm will conquer storm, fair will conquer foul, light will conquer darkness, joy will conquer sorrow, life conquer death, love conquer destruction and the devouring floods; because God is light, God is love, God is life, God is peace and joy eternal and without change, and labours to give life, and joy, and peace, to man and beast and all created things. This was the meaning of the rainbow. Not a sudden or <a href="/wiki/Strange" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange">strange</a> token, a <a href="/wiki/Miracle" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle">miracle</a>, as men call it, like as some <a href="/wiki/Voice" title="Voice">voice</a> out of the sky, or fiery <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a>, might have been; but a regular, orderly, and natural sign, to witness that God is a God of order. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a>, in "God's Covenants", Sermon 42 of <i>The Works of Charles Kingsley</i> (1885), Vol. 22, p. 424</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brescia_astro_clock.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Brescia_astro_clock.jpg/250px-Brescia_astro_clock.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Brescia_astro_clock.jpg/330px-Brescia_astro_clock.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Brescia_astro_clock.jpg/500px-Brescia_astro_clock.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="532" /></a><figcaption>The present! it is but a drop from the sea In the mighty depths of eternity. ~ <a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG/220px-Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG/330px-Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG/440px-Maitreya-Tang_Dynasty-side.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1196" data-file-height="1605" /></a><figcaption>*Whose knocking do I hear? It is you, fugitive!.. You tried to lose yourself in earthly sounds of flute and strings. To where did you flee? <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> you stand before Me, And I say: you have returned to Me, You have found My door. You saw how your mind had lost its light, how dispersed was your joy. And you now understand that the knocking one will be admitted. And the admitted one will be forgiven... ~ <a href="/wiki/Maitreya_(Theosophy)" title="Maitreya (Theosophy)">Maitreya</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The present! it is but a drop from the sea<br />In the mighty depths of <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">eternity</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, in The Vow of the Peacock (1835)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our religious friends argue much about <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a> and hell and are terribly afraid of the latter indeed it would sometimes almost seem as though they were afraid of the former as well, from the manner in which they exert themselves to avoid going there. In the future no questions or disputes about these conditions will be possible, because man will see for himself that there is no hell, though he will also see very clearly that those who live an evil life are by that fact storing up for themselves very undesirable results and a very unpleasant time in the astral life. The glories of the heaven world will also be open to his sight, and he will realize that man needs only a development of <a href="/wiki/Will_(philosophy)" title="Will (philosophy)">faculty</a> in order to place him at once, here and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>, in the midst of all the bliss that that wondrous life can give. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a>, <i>Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern</i> (1903)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_(Pietro_Antonio_Rotari)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_%28Pietro_Antonio_Rotari%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_%28Pietro_Antonio_Rotari%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_%28Pietro_Antonio_Rotari%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_%28Pietro_Antonio_Rotari%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_%28Pietro_Antonio_Rotari%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Girl_Looking_through_a_Telescope_%28Pietro_Antonio_Rotari%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_17114.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2950" data-file-height="3865" /></a><figcaption>Ah, now we see the <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> inherent in the <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>! ~ <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail" title="Monty Python and the Holy Grail">Monty Python and the Holy Grail</a></i> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Whose knocking do I hear? It is you, fugitive! <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> I shall tell you, You have been fleeing from Me with the same persistence you manifested before, when building My Abodes. You fled, attempting to hide yourself within the sanctuaries of the world’s temples. Behind the steps of thrones did you conceal yourself. Changing your appearance, you did secrete yourself beneath the folds of tents. You tried to lose yourself in earthly sounds of flute and strings. To where did you flee? <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> you stand before Me, And I say: you have returned to Me, You have found My door. You saw how your mind had lost its light, how dispersed was your joy. And you now understand that the knocking one will be admitted. And the admitted one will be forgiven. And you have <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> found the better door, and have come, seeing the futility of your flight. And I will admit you who knock and say to you: I have preserved for you your <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>. Take up your chalice, and <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a>... You know now that flight is in vain. You stand there <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>, approaching the door, And your chalice awaits you. (338) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maitreya_(Theosophy)" title="Maitreya (Theosophy)">Maitreya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maitreya_(Theosophy)#Leaves_of_Morya’s_Garden:_Book_One:_The_Call_(1924)" title="Maitreya (Theosophy)"><i>Leaves of Morya’s Garden, Book One, The Call</i></a> (1924)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Now that I've met you,<br />Would you object to<br />Never seeing each other again?</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aimee_Mann" title="Aimee Mann">Aimee Mann</a>, in "Deathly", in <a href="/wiki/Magnolia_(film)" title="Magnolia (film)"><i>Magnolia</i> (1999)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">Mercy</a> says, speaking from her <a href="/wiki/Silence" title="Silence">silence</a>, <i>stand in the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a>. Breath the deep. <b><a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">Feel</a> what can be!</b></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Oh, Mercy — now I <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> behind your <a href="/wiki/Actions" class="mw-redirect" title="Actions">actions</a>, the thread that binds all these seemingly random events.</b> … There's no great or small! No question of size or importance! Each act of <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a> — however minor it may appear to our blind eyes — affects <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> Creation; shakes it to its roots! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The first thing <a href="/wiki/Necessary" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary">necessary</a> for a constructive dealing with <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> is to learn to live in the <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a>. For <a href="/wiki/Psychologically" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychologically">psychologically</a> speaking, this present moment is all we have.</b> The past and future have <a href="/wiki/Meaning" title="Meaning">meaning</a> because they are part of the present: a past event has existence now because you are thinking of it at this present moment, or because it influences you so that you, as a living being in the present, are that much different. The future has reality because one can bring it into his mind in the present. Past was the present at one time, and the future will be the present at some coming moment. <b>To try to live in the "when" of the future or the "then" of the past always involves an artificiality, a separating one's self from reality; for in actuality one exists in the present. </b>The past has meaning as it lights up the present, and the future as it makes the present richer and more profound. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, in <i>Man's Search for Himself</i> (1953), p. 227</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grass_of_Happiness.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Grass_of_Happiness.jpg/220px-Grass_of_Happiness.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Grass_of_Happiness.jpg/330px-Grass_of_Happiness.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Grass_of_Happiness.jpg/440px-Grass_of_Happiness.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>The day you are <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a> for no <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking <a href="/wiki/Delight" title="Delight">delight</a> in <a href="/wiki/Everything" class="mw-redirect" title="Everything">everything</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a>, you will <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> that you have found the land of unending <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> called <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" title="Kingdom of God">the kingdom</a>.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small><i>The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello</i></small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trinity_shot_color.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Trinity_shot_color.jpg/220px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Trinity_shot_color.jpg/330px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Trinity_shot_color.jpg/440px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2426" data-file-height="2790" /></a><figcaption>"Now I am become <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a>, the destroyer of <a href="/wiki/Worlds" class="mw-redirect" title="Worlds">worlds</a>." I suppose we all <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> that, one way or another. ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer" title="Robert Oppenheimer">Robert Oppenheimer</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG/250px-Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG/330px-Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG/500px-Orvieto_Pozzo_San_Patrizio_5.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a> of <a href="/wiki/Intelligent" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligent">intelligent</a> men. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>If you want to <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> what it <a href="/wiki/Means" class="mw-redirect" title="Means">means</a> to be <a href="/wiki/Happy" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy">happy</a>, look at a <a href="/wiki/Flower" class="mw-redirect" title="Flower">flower</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Bird" class="mw-redirect" title="Bird">bird</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Child" class="mw-redirect" title="Child">child</a>; they are <a href="/wiki/Perfect" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfect">perfect</a> images of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" title="Kingdom of God">the kingdom</a>. For they live from <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> to moment in the <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> with no <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and no <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>. So they are spared the guilt and anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead. The day you are happy for no <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking <a href="/wiki/Delight" title="Delight">delight</a> in <a href="/wiki/Everything" class="mw-redirect" title="Everything">everything</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a>, you will <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> that you have found the land of unending <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> called the kingdom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello" title="Anthony de Mello">Anthony de Mello</a>, <i>The Way to Love</i> (1995)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ah, now we see the <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> inherent in the <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>! <ul><li>Dennis the Peasant, after <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a> tells him to shut up, in <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail" title="Monty Python and the Holy Grail">Monty Python and the Holy Grail</a></i> (1975)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a></b>; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Human,_All_Too_Human" title="Human, All Too Human">Human, All Too Human</a></i> (1878), Helen Zimmern translation (1909-1913)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Once you were apes, <b>yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra" title="Thus Spoke Zarathustra">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a></i> (1891), Prologue 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">Dead</a> are all <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">gods</a>: <b>now we want the <a href="/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch" title="Übermensch">overman</a> to <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">live</a></b>" — on that great noon, let this be our last will. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra" title="Thus Spoke Zarathustra">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a></i> (1891), Part I, On the Gift-Giving Virtue, 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ye are my <a href="/wiki/Believers" class="mw-redirect" title="Believers">believers</a>: but of what account are all believers! Ye had not yet sought <a href="/wiki/Yourselves" class="mw-redirect" title="Yourselves">yourselves</a>: then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account. <b>Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra" title="Thus Spoke Zarathustra">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</a></i> (1891), Part I, Ch. 22, The Bestowing Virtue</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We <a href="/wiki/Knew" class="mw-redirect" title="Knew">knew</a> the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> would not be the same. Few people <a href="/wiki/Laughed" class="mw-redirect" title="Laughed">laughed</a>, few people cried, most people were <a href="/wiki/Silent" class="mw-redirect" title="Silent">silent</a>. I remembered the line from the <a href="/wiki/Hindu" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> scripture, the <i><a href="/wiki/Bhagavad-Gita" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhagavad-Gita">Bhagavad-Gita</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Vishnu</a> is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a> and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "<b>Now I am become <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">Death</a>, the destroyer of worlds.</b>" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer" title="Robert Oppenheimer">Robert Oppenheimer</a>, in an interview about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_test" class="extiw" title="w:Trinity test">Trinity nuclear explosion</a>, first broadcast as part of the television documentary <i>The Decision to Drop the Bomb</i> (1965), produced by Fred Freed, NBC White Paper; Oppenheimer is quoting from the 1944 <a href="/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda" title="Swami Vivekananda">Vivekananda</a>-<a href="/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood" title="Christopher Isherwood">Isherwood</a> translation of the Gita (ch. XI verse 32). The line is spoken to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna" class="extiw" title="w:Arjuna">Arjuna</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna" class="extiw" title="w:Krishna">Krishna</a>, who is revered in Hindu traditions as one of the major incarnations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu" class="extiw" title="w:Vishnu">Vishnu</a>; some assert that the passage would be better translated "<b>I am become <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">Time</a>, the destroyer of worlds.</b>"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a> of <a href="/wiki/Intelligent" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligent">intelligent</a> men.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, in a review of <i>Power: A New Social Analysis</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> in <i>The Adelphi</i> (January 1939)</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg/220px-Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg/330px-Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg/440px-Academ_Arithmetic_progressions_along_a_knotted_loop.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>Time, which is the sequence of the modifications of the mind, likewise terminates, giving place to the Eternal Now. ~ <a href="/wiki/Patanjali" class="mw-redirect" title="Patanjali">Patanjali</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG/250px-Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG/330px-Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG/500px-Leisurelands_big_wheel.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1886" data-file-height="1237" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> will come when every <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; <br /><a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">Nothing</a> shall be to come, and nothing <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, But an <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> now shall ever last. ~ <a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg/220px-MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg/330px-MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg/440px-MX_MIRV_reentry_vehicles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2597" data-file-height="1917" /></a><figcaption>A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">SKY</a>. It has happened before, but there is <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> to compare it to now. ~ <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg/220px-Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg/330px-Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg/440px-Brocken_Spectre_at_Peak_Korzhenevskaya.jpg 2x" data-file-width="813" data-file-height="569" /></a><figcaption>The more you dwell in the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of <b>Now</b>, the more tenuous you are. ~ <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; The wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)" class="extiw" title="w:Common Sense (pamphlet)">Common Sense</a></i> (1776)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" class="extiw" title="w:Noah">Noah</a> until now.</b> The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the event of a few months. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)" class="extiw" title="w:Common Sense (pamphlet)">Common Sense</a></i> (1776)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>THESE are the <a href="/wiki/Times" title="Times">times</a> that try men's <a href="/wiki/Souls" class="mw-redirect" title="Souls">souls</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">summer</a> soldier and the sunshine <a href="/wiki/Patriot" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriot">patriot</a> will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a>; but he that stands it now, deserves the <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> and thanks of man and woman.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Crisis_No._I" class="extiw" title="s:The Crisis No. I"><i>The Crisis</i> No. I</a> (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. <b>The heart that feels not now is dead</b>; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, in <i>The Crisis</i>, No. I (1776)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Now our time and turn is come, and perhaps the finishing stroke is reserved for us. </b>When we look back on the dangers we have been saved from, and reflect on the success we have been blessed with, it would be sinful either to be idle or to despair. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Crisis_No._IV" class="extiw" title="s:The Crisis No. IV">The Crisis No. IV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Time, which is the sequence of the modifications of the mind, likewise terminates, giving place to the Eternal Now.</b> <ul><li>Patanjali, <a href="/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali#The_Light_of_the_Soul..._a_paraphrase_of_the_Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali,_by_Alice_A._Bailey,_(1927)" title="Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"><i>Yoga Sutras of Patanjali</i></a>, translation by <a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a> , Book IV, Sutra 33 (1927)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sometimes I think your <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or <a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">fate</a>, because, <b>after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a>, in a letter to <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> (May 1942), as quoted in <i>Eisenhower : A Soldier's Life</i> (2003) by Carlo D'Este, p. 301</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> <a href="/wiki/Solution" class="mw-redirect" title="Solution">solution</a> applied with vigor now is better than a <a href="/wiki/Perfect" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfect">perfect</a> solution applied ten minutes later.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a>, as quoted in "The Unknown Patton" (1983) by Charles M. Province, p. 165</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of <a href="/wiki/Salvation" title="Salvation">salvation</a> have I succoured thee: behold, <b>now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, in <i>II Corinthians</i>, 6:2 (KJV)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. <b>For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. <br /> And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, in <i>I Corinthians</i> 13:11-13 (NKJV)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The time will come when every change shall cease, <br /> This quick revolving wheel shall rest in <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>:<br /> No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; <br /><b><a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">Nothing</a> shall be to come, and nothing past, <br />But an <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> now shall ever last.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a>, <i>Triumph of Eternity</i>, line 117</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.</b> <br /> It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theatre. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%27s_Rainbow" class="extiw" title="w:Gravity's Rainbow">Gravity's Rainbow</a></i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not think<br />I’ve reached where I am now<br />by slipping like a landslide<br />or evaporating like a cloud. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Pokhrel" title="Suman Pokhrel">Suman Pokhrel</a>, <i>While Parting</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, "is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth." <br /><b> "Temporal bandwidth," is the width of your present, your <i>now</i>. It is the familiar "∆ t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>, in <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The knife cuts through the apple like a knife cutting an apple. Everything is where it is, no clearer than usual, but certainly more present. <b>So much has to be left behind now, so quickly.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>, in <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The true moment of <a href="/wiki/Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow">shadow</a> is the moment in which you see the point of light in the sky.</b> The single point, and the Shadow that has just gathered you in its sweep ..." <br /> Always remember. <br /> The first star hangs between his feet. <br /> <i>Now</i> — <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>, in <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg/220px-Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg/330px-Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg/440px-Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> contemplates Himself and <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> things in an <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">Eternal</a> Now that has neither <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a> nor <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Ruysbroeck" title="John Ruysbroeck">John Ruysbroeck</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/220px-Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/330px-Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/440px-Annie_Wersching_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2637" data-file-height="3455" /></a><figcaption>The past is now. ~ Kiley Rossetter & Christopher Monfette</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg/250px-Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg/330px-Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg/500px-Evan_Evagora_Photo_Op_GalaxyCon_Raleigh_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="522" data-file-height="697" /></a><figcaption>Now is the only moment. ~ Kiley Rossetter & Christopher Monfette</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> contemplates Himself and <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> things in an <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">Eternal</a> Now that has neither <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a> nor <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Ruysbroeck" title="John Ruysbroeck">John Ruysbroeck</a>, in <i>The Spiritual Espousals</i> (<i>c</i>. 1340)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>However confused the scene of our <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> appears, however torn we may be who now do <a href="/wiki/Face" class="mw-redirect" title="Face">face</a> that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.</b> <br /> If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. <b><a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">Moment</a> to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser" title="Muriel Rukeyser">Muriel Rukeyser</a>, in <i>The Life of Poetry</i> (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Move backward to go forward. Shatter to mend. <b>The past is now.</b> <ul><li>Borg Queen (played by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Annie_Wersching&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Annie Wersching (page does not exist)">Annie Wersching</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Picard" title="Star Trek: Picard">Star Trek: Picard</a></i> Season 2 Episode 3 Assimilation (March 17, 2022) written by Kiley Rossetter & Christopher Monfette</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Now is the only moment.</b> <ul><li>Elnor (played by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Evan_Evagora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evan Evagora (page does not exist)">Evan Evagora</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Picard" title="Star Trek: Picard">Star Trek: Picard</a></i> Season 2 Episode 3 Assimilation (March 17, 2022) written by Kiley Rossetter & Christopher Monfette</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg/250px-Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg/330px-Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg/500px-Portrait_of_A._Schweitzer_by_J._Engel_Wellcome_L0015830.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1150" data-file-height="1622" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a> has no special <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> of its own. Its hour is now — always… ~ <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iustitia.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Iustitia.png/250px-Iustitia.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Iustitia.png/330px-Iustitia.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Iustitia.png/440px-Iustitia.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a>, what <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> — win or lose. ~ <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>We're stumbling around in a very <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">dark</a> age basically trying not to <a href="/wiki/Kill" class="mw-redirect" title="Kill">kill</a> each other. So it hurts me when you say "So what?" Because you are not just different, Jeremy, I think you have a <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> that we won't <a href="/wiki/Evolve" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolve">evolve</a> to for like thousands of years — <b>you're maybe the man of the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> right here and now.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Salva" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Salva">Victor Salva</a>, in lines written for the character Donald Ripley, in <a href="/wiki/Powder_(film)" title="Powder (film)"><i>Powder</i> (1995)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>She says she <a href="/wiki/Believes" class="mw-redirect" title="Believes">believes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Miracles" title="Miracles">miracles</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>, and that you should too.</b> … She thinks I'm an <a href="/wiki/Angels" title="Angels">angel</a>. Come to take her <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a>… <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Salva" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Salva">Victor Salva</a>, in lines written for the character Jeremy Reed, in <a href="/wiki/Powder_(film)" title="Powder (film)"><i>Powder</i> (1995)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everybody has to <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a>, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a>, in a statement to the Associated Press, five days before his death of cancer (13 May 1981)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a> has no special <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> of its own. Its hour is <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a> — always</b>, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=t_AYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Truth+has+no+special+time+of+its+own+its+hour+is+now+always%22&pg=PA117#v=onepage"><i>On the Edge of the Primeval Forest</i> (1922), 1956 translation</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I wasted <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, and now doth time waste me;<br />For now hath time made me his numbering clock</b>:<br />My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar<br />Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,<br />Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,<br />Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, in lines said by King Richard in <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i> (1592)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, <i>Pari</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a>, <br /> <b>Yet if the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> were cancelled within the here and now <br /> And then the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> hidden, I could regain that Day <br /> Which I, before I was, had lived in <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s own way.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angelus_Silesius" title="Angelus Silesius">Angelus Silesius</a>, in <i>The Cherubinic Wanderer</i> (1657; 1674) as translated in <i>Cherubinischer Wandersmann of Angelus Silesius</i> (1944), by Julia Bilger</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us — what convictions, what courage, what faith — win or lose.</b> A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson</a>, in an address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois (21 July 1952); published in <i>Speeches of Adlai Stevenson</i> (1952), p. 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions</b>, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson</a>, in his acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois (26 July 1952)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson</a>, as quoted in <i>The Stevenson Wit</i> (1965) edited by Bill Adler.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg/250px-Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg/330px-Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg/500px-Rembrandt_-_A_Scholar_in_his_Study_-_NG.M.01365.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2538" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>A state of consciousness totally free of all negativity ... is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future but right here and now. ~ <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Van_Gogh_10.jpg/250px-Van_Gogh_10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Van_Gogh_10.jpg/330px-Van_Gogh_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Van_Gogh_10.jpg/500px-Van_Gogh_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="737" /></a><figcaption>To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">present moment</a> and allow it to be. ~ <a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>What we now want most is closer contact and better <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a> between <a href="/wiki/Individuals" class="mw-redirect" title="Individuals">individuals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities">communities</a> all over the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a> and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of <a href="/wiki/National" class="mw-redirect" title="National">national</a> <a href="/wiki/Egoism" class="mw-redirect" title="Egoism">egoism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pride" title="Pride">pride</a>, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Inventions:_The_Autobiography_of_Nikola_Tesla" class="extiw" title="w:My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla">My Inventions</a></i> (1919)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you made a mistake in the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and learn from it <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>, you are using clock time. On the other hand, if you dwell on it mentally, and self-criticism, <a href="/wiki/Remorse" title="Remorse">remorse</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Guilt" title="Guilt">guilt</a> come up, then you are making the mistake into “me” and “mine”: you make it part of your <a href="/wiki/Identity" title="Identity">sense of self</a>, and it has become psychological time, which is always linked to a false sense of identity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Now:_A_Guide_to_Spiritual_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment"><i>The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</i></a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Forgiveness" title="Forgiveness">Forgiveness</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> is even more important than forgiveness of the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time... It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive. As soon as they do, one of the greatest miracles happens: the awakening of Being - consciousness through what appears as evil, the transmutation of suffering into <a href="/wiki/Inner_peace" title="Inner peace">inner peace</a>. The ultimate effect of all the evil and suffering in the world is that it will force humans into realizing who they are beyond name and form. Thus, what we perceive as evil from our limited perspective is actually part of the higher good that has no opposite. This, however, does not become true for you except through forgiveness. Until that happens, evil has not been redeemed and therefore remains evil. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Now:_A_Guide_to_Spiritual_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment"><i>The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</i></a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Through <a href="/wiki/Forgiveness" title="Forgiveness">forgiveness</a>, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> and allowing the <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> moment to be as it is, the miracle of <a href="/wiki/Transformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformation">transformation</a> happens not only within but also without. A silent space of intense presence arises both in you and around you. Whoever or whatever enters that field of consciousness will be affected by it, sometimes visibly and immediately, sometimes at deeper levels with visible changes appearing at a later time. You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness - without doing anything - simply by being and holding that frequency of intense presence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Now:_A_Guide_to_Spiritual_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment"><i>The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</i></a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Forgiveness" title="Forgiveness">"Forgiveness"</a> is a term that has been in use for 2,000 years, but most people have a very limited view of what it means. You cannot truly forgive yourself or others as long as you derive <a href="/wiki/Identity" title="Identity">your sense of self</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>. Only through accessing the power of the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a>, which is your own power, can there be true forgiveness. This renders the past powerless, and you realize deeply that nothing you ever did or that was ever done to you could touch even in the slightest the radiant essence of who you are. The whole concept of forgiveness then becomes unnecessary.... When you surrender to <a class="mw-selflink selflink">what is</a> and so become fully <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a>, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. <a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Now</a> is the key. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Now:_A_Guide_to_Spiritual_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment"><i>The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</i></a> (1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The most important, the primordial relationship in your life is your relationship with the Now, or rather with whatever form the Now takes, that is to say, what is or what happens. If your relationship with the Now is dysfunctional, that dysfunction will be reflected in every relationship and every situation you encounter. The <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">ego</a> could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. It is at this moment that you can decide what kind of relationship you want to have with the present moment. p. 122 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">ego</a>. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now. Time is what the ego lives on. The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life.</b> Almost every thought you think is then concerned with <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a> or future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your <a href="/wiki/Identity" title="Identity">identity</a> and on the future for its fulfillment. <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">Fear</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anxiety" title="Anxiety">anxiety</a>, <a href="/wiki/Expectations" title="Expectations">expectation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Regret" title="Regret">regret</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guilt" title="Guilt">guilt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anger" title="Anger">anger</a> are the dysfunctions of the timebound state of <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To the ego, the present moment is, at best, only useful as a means to an end. It gets you to some future moment that is considered more important, even though the future never comes except as the present moment and is therefore never more than a thought in your head. In other words, you aren't ever fully here because you are always busy trying to get elsewhere. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At worst... <b>the present moment is treated as if it were an enemy. When you hate what you are doing, complain about your surroundings, curse things that are happening or have happened, or when your internal dialogue consists of shoulds and shouldn'ts, of blaming and accusing, when you are arguing with what is, arguing with that which is always already the case you are making Life into an enemy</b> and Life says, “War is what you want, and war is what you get.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.... All that is required to become free of the <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">ego</a> is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible. <b>Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment.</b> p. 50 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To sum up: Enjoyment of what you are doing, combined with a goal or vision that you work toward, becomes enthusiasm. Even though you have a goal, <b>what you are doing in the present moment needs to remain the focal point of your attention</b>; otherwise, you will fall out of alignment with universal purpose. Make sure your vision or goal is not an inflated image of yourself and therefore a concealed form of ego, such as wanting to become a movie star, a famous writer, or a wealthy entrepreneur. Also make sure your goal is not focused on having this or that, such as a mansion by the sea, your own company, or ten million dollars in the bank. An enlarged image of yourself or a vision of yourself having this or that are all static goals and therefore don't empower you. Instead, make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. Instead of seeing yourself as a famous actor and writer and so on, see yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel how that activity enriches or deepens not only your life but that of countless others. <b>Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> in <i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,</i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth,” writes the biblical prophet (Revelation 21:1). The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven – the awakened consciousness. The earth – external reality – is only its outer reflection. The arising of a new heaven and by implication a new earth are not future events that are going to make us free. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> in <i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,</i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. So the new heaven, the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> in <i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,</i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The outward movement into form does not express itself with equal intensity in all people. Some feel a strong urge to build, create, become involved, achieve, make an impact upon the world.... Others, after the natural expansion that comes with growing up has run its course, lead an outwardly unremarkable, seemingly more passive and relatively uneventful existence. They are more inward looking by nature, and for them the outward movement into form is minimal. They would rather return home than go out. They have no desire to get strongly involved in or change the world... Some may feel drawn toward living in a spiritual community or monastery. Others may become dropouts and live on the margins of society they feel they have little in common with. Some turn to drugs because yhey find living in this world too painful. Others eventually become healers or spiritual teachers, that is to say, teachers of Being... On the arising new earth, however, their role is just as vital as that of the creators, the doers, the reformers. Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on his planet. I call them the frequency holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through “just being.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> in <a href="/wiki/A_New_Earth:_Awakening_to_Your_Life%E2%80%99s_Purpose" class="mw-redirect" title="A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose"><i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,</i></a> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i> <b>Now and then there's a <a href="/wiki/Fool" class="mw-disambig" title="Fool">fool</a> such as I am over you.</b> <br /> You taught me how to love <br /> And now you say that we are through.</i> <br /> <b>I'm a fool, but I'll <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> you dear <br /> Until the day I <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a>. <br /> Now and then there's a fool such as I.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Trader" title="Bill Trader">Bill Trader</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Now_and_Then_There%27s)_A_Fool_Such_as_I" class="extiw" title="w:(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I">(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I</a> (1952)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg/220px-Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg/330px-Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg/440px-Francis_Danby_-_Scene_from_the_Apocalypse_-_WGA5899.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1300" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>I said, "<a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac</a> is up in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a> now." That was the <a href="/wiki/Funniest" class="mw-redirect" title="Funniest">funniest</a> thing I could have said to an audience of <a href="/wiki/Humanists" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanists">humanists</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a> <a href="/wiki/Moments" class="mw-redirect" title="Moments">moments</a>, <a href="/wiki/Past" title="Past">past</a>, <a href="/wiki/Present" title="Present">present</a> and <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>, always have existed, always will exist.</b> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tralfamadore" class="extiw" title="w:Tralfamadore">Tralfamadorians</a> can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. <b>They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them.</b> It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone <a href="/wiki/Forever" class="mw-redirect" title="Forever">forever</a>.<br />When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. <b>Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death</a></i>, (1969), Ch. 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Kilgore's Creed: "<b>You were <a href="/wiki/Sick" class="mw-redirect" title="Sick">sick</a>, but now you're well again, and there's <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a> to do.</b>" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Timequake" title="Timequake">Timequake</a></i> (1997), Ch. 50</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am honorary president of the American <a href="/wiki/Humanist" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanist">Humanist</a> Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> in that essentially functionless capacity. At an A.H.A. memorial service for my predecessor I said, "<b>Isaac is up in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">now</a>.</b>" That was the <a href="/wiki/Funniest" class="mw-redirect" title="Funniest">funniest</a> thing I could have said to an audience of <a href="/wiki/Humanists" class="mw-redirect" title="Humanists">humanists</a>. It rolled them in the aisles. Mirth! Several minutes had to pass before something resembling <a href="/wiki/Solemnity" title="Solemnity">solemnity</a> could be restored. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Dr._Kevorkian" class="extiw" title="w:God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian">God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian</a></i> (1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg/220px-USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg/330px-USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg/440px-USNS_Mercy_off_Jolo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>A Rainbow of <a href="/wiki/Promise" class="mw-redirect" title="Promise">Promise</a> now shines on the world, <br /> And the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> thrills at the sight. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox" title="Ella Wheeler Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg/220px-Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg/330px-Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg/440px-Halo_in_cirrostratus_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>From now on it will be you and I,<br /> And our ribbon in the <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a>, <br /> Ribbon in the sky, <br /> A ribbon in the sky for our <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>This is the <a href="/wiki/Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Real">real</a> <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a>, realize it is play.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Watts" title="Alan Watts">Alan Watts</a>, in <i>The Essence of Alan Watts</i> (1977)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">Liberty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Union_(United_States)" title="Union (United States)">Union (United States)</a>, now and <a href="/wiki/Forever" class="mw-redirect" title="Forever">forever</a>, one and inseparable.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a>, in his second speech on Foote's Resolution (26 January 1830)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Dazzling and tremendous how quick the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a>-rise would kill me,<br /> If I could not now and <a href="/wiki/Always" class="mw-redirect" title="Always">always</a> send sun-rise out of me.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass#Song_of_Myself_.281855.3B_1881.29" title="Leaves of Grass"><i>Song of Myself</i> (1855; 1881), § 25</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a> <a href="/wiki/Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces">forces</a> have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, <br /> Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, in <i>Song of Myself</i> (1855; 1881), § (44)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Long enough have you dream'd contemptible <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a>, <br /><b> Now I wash the gum from your eyes, <br /> You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a> of your life.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, in <i>Song of Myself</i> (1855; 1881), § 46</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now… <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, in "To a Certain Civilian" (1865; 1871)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, in "<a href="/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass#By_Blue_Ontario.27s_Shore" title="Leaves of Grass">By Blue Ontario's Shore</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,<br /> As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,<br /> The straying thence, the separation long, but <b>now the wandering done,<br /> The journey done, the journeyman come home,<br /> And man and art with Nature fused again.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, in "<a href="/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass#Proud_Music_of_the_Storm" title="Leaves of Grass">Proud Music of the Storm</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the face of the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> are <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> <a href="/wiki/Thunderbolts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thunderbolts">thunderbolts</a> hurled,<br /> And the <a href="/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>-<a href="/wiki/Clouds" title="Clouds">clouds</a> have shut out its <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>;<br /> But <b>a <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow">Rainbow</a> of <a href="/wiki/Promise" class="mw-redirect" title="Promise">Promise</a> now shines on the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>,<br /> And the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> thrills at the <a href="/wiki/Sight" class="mw-redirect" title="Sight">sight</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox" title="Ella Wheeler Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a>, in "The Rainbow of Promise"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We can't lose with <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> on our side, <br /> We'll find <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strength</a> in each tear we cry, <br /> <b>From now on it will be you and I,<br /> And our ribbon in the <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a>, <br /> Ribbon in the sky, <br /> A ribbon in the sky for our <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_in_the_Sky" class="extiw" title="w:Ribbon in the Sky">Ribbon in the Sky</a>" (1969)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> leaps up when I behold <br /> A rainbow in the sky! <br /> <b>So was it when my life began; <br /> So is it now I am a man</b>; <br /> So be it when I shall grow old, <br /> Or let me <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a>! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, in "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" (1802)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Butterfly_and_moon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Butterfly_and_moon.png/220px-Butterfly_and_moon.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Butterfly_and_moon.png/330px-Butterfly_and_moon.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Butterfly_and_moon.png/440px-Butterfly_and_moon.png 2x" data-file-width="545" data-file-height="524" /></a><figcaption>Now I do not <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a> whether I was then a <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a> <a href="/wiki/Dreaming" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreaming">dreaming</a> I was a <a href="/wiki/Butterfly" class="mw-redirect" title="Butterfly">butterfly</a>, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. ~ <a href="/wiki/Zhuangzi" title="Zhuangzi">Zhuangzi</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Once upon a <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a <a href="/wiki/Butterfly" class="mw-redirect" title="Butterfly">butterfly</a>, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a> as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a> I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.</b> Between a man and a butterfly there is <a href="/wiki/Necessarily" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessarily">necessarily</a> a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things. <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Zhuangzi" title="Zhuangzi">Zhuangzi</a></i>, as translated by <a href="/wiki/Lin_Yutang" title="Lin Yutang">Lin Yutang</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anonymous">Anonymous</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Anonymous"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JUL_Soul_Iris.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/JUL_Soul_Iris.png/250px-JUL_Soul_Iris.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/JUL_Soul_Iris.png 1.5x" data-file-width="292" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption>Ye should shew forth the <a href="/wiki/Praises" class="mw-redirect" title="Praises">praises</a> of him who hath called you out of <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a> into his marvellous <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>; which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>: which had not obtained <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a>, but now have obtained mercy. ~ <a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG/250px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG/330px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG/500px-Occupy_Wall_Street_Anonymous_2011_Shankbone.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1573" data-file-height="1752" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> for <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> is now. No longer shall the people be <a href="/wiki/Oppressed" class="mw-redirect" title="Oppressed">oppressed</a> by <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(group)" title="Anonymous (group)"><b>Anonymous</b> (group)</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">holy</a> <a href="/wiki/Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation">nation</a>, a peculiar <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>; that ye should shew forth the <a href="/wiki/Praises" class="mw-redirect" title="Praises">praises</a> of him who hath called you out of <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a> into his marvellous <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>; which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>: which had not obtained <a href="/wiki/Mercy" title="Mercy">mercy</a>, but now have obtained mercy.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Peter" class="extiw" title="w:First Epistle of Peter">First Epistle of Peter</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Peter%202&version=KJV;SBLGNT">2:6 - 10</a> (traditionally attributed to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a>); this is one of the passages through which <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a> (or <b>Friends</b>) indicate <a href="/wiki/Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine">divine</a> sanction of the <a href="/wiki/Universal" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal">universal</a> priesthood of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Believers" class="mw-redirect" title="Believers">believers</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We share the collective idea of ANONYMOUS worldwide; we are the <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>. <br /> We believe in non-violent, <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peaceful</a> <a href="/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">civil disobedience</a>. <br /> Throughout <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> has been controlled by big <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideologies</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> to name but a few. These are all forms of <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> that have stopped our <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> and removed our <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>. <br /> ANONYMOUS see these ideologies for what they are, <a href="/wiki/Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Systems">SYSTEMS</a> OF <a href="/wiki/Control" title="Control">CONTROL</a>. <br /> <b>The <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> for <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> is now.</b> No longer shall the people be oppressed by <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(group)" title="Anonymous (group)"><b>Anonymous</b> (group)</a>, Introductory page for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anonymousuk.org/about.htm">Anonymous UK</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I predict that Anonymous and entities like it will become far more significant over the next few years than is expected by most of our similarly irrelevant pundits — and this will, no doubt, turn out to be just as much of an understatement as anything else that has been written on the subject. …<b> This is the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>, whether one approves or not, and the failure on the part of <a href="/wiki/Governments" class="mw-redirect" title="Governments">governments</a> and media alike to <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a>, and contend with the rapid change now afoot, ought to remind everyone concerned why it is that this movement is <a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">necessary</a> in the first place.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> representative of <a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(group)" title="Anonymous (group)"><b>Anonymous</b> (group)</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121321487750509.html">"Anonymous and the global correction", <i>Aljazeera</i> (16 February 2011)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Power_of_Now,_by_Eckhart_Tolle_(1997)"><span id="The_Power_of_Now.2C_by_Eckhart_Tolle_.281997.29"></span><a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Now" title="The Power of Now"><i>The Power of Now</i>, by Eckhart Tolle (1997)</a></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Now&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle (1997)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>A state of consciousness totally free of all negativity ... is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future but right here and now.</li></ul> <ul><li>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.</li></ul> <ul><li>When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace—and you do so now... When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is “borrowed” from the Now.</li></ul> <ul><li>The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction—you don’t look to it for salvation.</li></ul> <ul><li>The pain that you create now is always some form of non acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering - and free of the egoic mind.</li></ul> <ul><li>Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Now</a>? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. 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