Look to this Day
Look To This Day Look to this day: For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendour of achievement Are but experiences of time. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision; And today well-lived, makes Yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day; Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn! By the poet Kalidasa, widely regarded as the greatest poet in the Sanskrit language, writing probably in the Fifth Century AD. I went to yoga the other night, dragging myself away from the woodburning stove and the warm chair into the blowing, rainfilled night. The hall where the class takes place was cold too, unusually. The caretaker had forgotten to put the heating on. We shivered and kept our socks on. Our calm and cheerful teacher worked gently to warm us up ...