Jesus used to say that it was futile for man to worry about what tomorrow has in store for him. Do not worry about the future, He said. Zen philosophy augments it with the words "live in the present". The most important fact regarding the present is that it does not have time. When you live in the present you are in eternity. In other words when you live in the present eternity stoops and merges into temporality. To live the present moment fruitfully is to set foot on the misty soils of heaven.
The past is gone and the future is yet to come and what you have at hand is the wonderful present. "With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now", said Ralph Waldo Emerson. If watering the last year’s crops would in no way aid you to alleviate your present day famine, let us better enjoy the dearth! As an old proverb teaches, past is a wonderful place to visit, but don't stay there."Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present" goes an old saying.
I always regret the fact that by looking back on my bygone days I always fail to admire the beauties that God sends me every moment… Failed in letter and spirit , to sense the fragrance of the smiling flower, the melodious rhythm of the singing bird, the caressing fingers of the moonlight, the heartbreaking lamentations that arise from the riversides of Babylon by the uprooted men and women of my century, the hungry babies snatched away from their mother's breasts, the forsaken, the downtrodden...........
I have memories which will never change my fate and hopes which are uncertain of being realized. Poor man.... without looking at the pearls at hand cries out for help which would come from the mountains.....
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