“I need to be more in the moment, like when I was wet and wild in the waves. Being in the moment—right now!—equals freedom. It can't be scrutinized, analyzed, rhapsodized, mythologized. Itcan't be desecrated, debated, prognosticated. Right now can only be lived. Isn't this the same message Itried to get across to the kiddies in the lecture that got me fired? Isn't this the same advice Gladdie gave me right before she died?Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson—LIVE!—is the one I continually forget to put into practice?”
“Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson—LIVE!—is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?”
“I wish we could live in this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever”
“I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.”
“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
“...and even though I am practicing being kind rather than right, I can't find it in me to confort her right now...”