The Alchemist
Monday, March 12th, 2012 11:15![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cookiecutterpassage from The Alchemist...
A camel driver of a caravan talks about 'present'
"I'm alive," he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one
night, with no fires and no moon. "When I'm eating, that's all I think
about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have
to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other.
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested
only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present,
you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert,
that there are starts in the heavens, and that tribes men fight
because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you,
a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
A camel driver of a caravan talks about 'present'
"I'm alive," he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one
night, with no fires and no moon. "When I'm eating, that's all I think
about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have
to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other.
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested
only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present,
you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert,
that there are starts in the heavens, and that tribes men fight
because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you,
a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
