"We are constantly invited to be who we are... You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment...
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars...
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence; that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality..."
--excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau