“It is well worth analyzing the circumstances of those occasions on which we have been truly happy. For, as John Masefield says, ‘The days that make us happy make us wise.’ When we review them, we shall almost certainly find that they had one characteristic in common. They were times when, for this or that reason, we had temporarily ceased to feel anxious; when we lived – as we seldom do – in the depths of the present moment, without regretting the past, or worrying about the future.”
- The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, Swami Prabhavanananda and Christopher Isherwood
