Ruth Ozeki Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Live. For Now. For the time being. A Tale for the Time Being

2. If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the then and you can never catch up to what's happening now, which means that now is pretty much doomed to extinction. A Tale for the Time Being

3. Live. For Now. For the time being. A Tale for the Time Being

4. Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages. The Book of Form and Emptiness

5. People are born from the womb of the world with different sensitivities, and the world needs every single one of you to experience it fully, so that it might be fully experienced. The Book of Form and Emptiness

6. Time interacts with attention in funny ways.At one extreme, when Ruth was gripped by the compulsive mania and hyperfocus of an Internet search, the hours seemed to aggregate and swell like a wave, swallowing huge chunks of her day.At the other extreme, when her attention was disengaged and fractured, she experienced time at its most granular, wherein moments hung around like particles, diffused and suspended in standing water.There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focused but vast, and time felt like a limpid pool, ringed by sunlit ferns. An underground spring fed the pool from deep below, creating a gentle current of words that bubbled up, while on the surface, breezes shimmered and played. A Tale for the Time Being