Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. TOMORROW is bound to be better... next YEAR, next century, always what might be RATHER than what is. This trait in us MAKES for 'progress;' it ALSO makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.

Yoga always HELPS me SLOW down, be present, and be GRATEFUL for my health and WELL-BEING.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the PRESENT MOMENT with the people you LOVE. It's just that SIMPLE.

Over the years, I've come to realize that SOMETIMES a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else PRESENT in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your BONES but haven't yet been ABLE to ACCEPT.

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that MIGHT BRING treatments for Alzheimer's disease or DIABETES - and Dr. Fukuyama LENT his name to a petition that supported such LAWS - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel DEEPLY the contrast with its ACTUAL present state; though still, as EVER beloved by God.

We RECEIVED our initial inspiration from our FAMILY, as from childhood we exhibited an inclination towards art. While Johns randomly drew pictures, I used to present dramas for my siblings. But when we grew up, we both GOT ADDICTED to our interests and it was fueled by political activism.

Producing is a wonderful foil to being an ACTOR: acting being largely about getting out of my HEAD, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other PLAYERS to ACT; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into REALITY.

Nothing in your past is in your PRESENT MAKING you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past FAILURES! You are not how others have at one TIME treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

The AUTHOR, in his work, MUST be like GOD in the UNIVERSE, present everywhere and visible NOWHERE.

You have to like the PRESENT; if not your LIFE becomes secondhand, if you think it was BETTER before. Or that it will be better in the FUTURE.

If you're not CHANGING, you're not GROWING; you're not being PRESENT. CHANGE is ESSENTIAL.