Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

Our entire life changes in a moment.

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.

For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.

Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.

We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown which we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

The only constant in a world of tremendous change is the swift passage of time. Five years passed like a blur.

Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.