“... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods”
“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”
“He said that the workings of God can be discerned only in retrospect and that he is always skeptical of people who speculate on God's will for the future, either the future of the world or of an individual life.”
“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.”
“Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.”
“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”