Body, Mind And Spirit In Finding The Field By Michael Brown

" You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. "- James Allen

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

Ultimately it is stressed that decisions have impact on the unknown, providing comfort as it implements two principles; that undesirable future events are able to be prevented and fixed and that desirable future events are able to be created. The comforting nature of these time travel principles illustrate that the notion of control alleviates fears as sublime ‘what if?’ scenarios are made possible and attainable.

However the gileadean society, values the aspect of present events more than us, being an indication of Atwood to return into the present as to be scared by the future before it is too late. As time is relative, our perception of it can change aswell. Resulting in the sorrowful comprehension that we missed a great part of our lives. “ Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Even we live in the moment. It’s also a scene of crossings, bridging past and present. People struggle ahead but often obsess themselves with the past and present.

The sun has risen and a young boy jumps out of bed with excitement, as he knows today he gets to go to his first professional baseball game. His father had bought him the tickets for his birthday months ago, and the boy had been counting down the days ever since. He put on his favorite ‘Cleveland Indians’ shirt, and ran downstairs to eat his yogurt and waffles for breakfast. As he ate, his mother saw him happily drawing Jacob’s Field, using his brown crayon to put the finishing touches on the base paths. The boy had a penchant attitude for baseball, as it was the first game his father ever taught him to play, and because of that, he would play whenever he could; with rocks and a stick, with his friends in the yard, and in his head when he

In this passage, TJ Armstrong, the author of the passage, recounts his story of an eye-opening event he experienced while coming home from the racetrack one night. He starts off with telling the reader that he works at a racetrack as a speaker and as he arrives at the track one night he realized the race had been postponed. On his way home that night he drove by an old broken-down house and thought to himself that he had to have a picture of the house so went to a neighboring house and asked if he could take a picture of the old house. The woman who answered the door promptly offered to tell him the story behind the house. TJ accepted and then followed her into the house and listened to her and her husband’s endless stories of her grandfather building the house, growing up there, and life in the country. After a while, he politely excused himself and left to go take pictures. As he is taking pictures of this house that must be over 100 years old and full of so much more history, he is able to visualize the events that the woman told him as if they are happening now and he is standing in the middle of it. At the end of the passage, the author makes clear the importance of taking the time to stop and enjoy life because it will be over before you know

The past, the present and the future all have one similarity: time. The past can either be one’s burden or blessing. The present takes into account how one’s past affects the choices they make that will inevitably affect the future. The future is the product of the past and the present along with the sense and image of the future. These three timely qualities are present in the quote, “We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self”, by Cyril Connolly. The “life-sentence” is caused by the past, the “serving” is the present, and the “self” is the future of who someone is. Along with the quote, the past, present, and future are thoroughly established The Crucible by Arthur Miller as well through a sin, a choice, and a name. I agree

Anne Fadiman’s novel The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down depicts the colliding worlds of the Western and Hmong culture in an effort to save the life of a little girl, who is diagnosed with epilepsy. The novel tells two different, but interwoven, stories in which one from the point of view of Lia’s parents, and another from the point of view of health care providers. Both Lia’s parents and health care providers want the best for Lia Lee, but due to a lack of understanding and cultural barriers, result in the tragedy of Lia. This article explains how anthropological concepts are applied into the novel, and how themes of culture and cultural misunderstanding impacted Lia’s parents and the health care providers resulting in a tragedy.

One of the main things the story “Power Lines” asks us to think about is whether or not we can live in the moment, or if that’s impossible. If it’s impossible, then aren’t the past and future both an integral part of our lives, and we must think about those things also? Almost one full page out of four is dedicated to this idea, where the main character thinks about whether insects ever contemplate what lies ahead in their future, if they can reflect on their lives or not. He decides they don’t, but perhaps the reader can infer that even though the insects don’t, people should.

Within the short fiction "What You're Ready For," by John Gould, Dr. Laird embodies the theme of living entirely in the present and it leads to his demise. He states that in life there is nothing but "the here, the now." (245) and with that one's perception of life must match. This means that a person must leave their thoughts of old and eliminate those of what may come, they can only contemplate on those of the current stream of consciousness as it enters. He goads the audience into a sense of empowerment as a means of personal growth.

Ishmael, “An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit”, a novel written by Daniel Quinn. Ishmael is a story based on the issues involving earth, such as global warming. Throughout the story Ishmael, a telepathic gorilla, and the narrator, name unknown, discover the true meaning behind the world, and how we are slowly coming to an end. As the share their ideas with one another they try and attempt to change the point of view mankind has on day to day living. Many lines of wisdom are said throughout the novel, which will be further explained in detail. The world itself is facing many issues in all topics of discussion, but we are the ones who are making this an issue. It comes down the us to save mankind, to save nature, to save the world!

I’m in the present, I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.” (Stravinsky)

It could argued that our common-sense notion of endurance through time is incorrect. That this mistaken self-conception lead us to experience the passage of time. If so, this would be illusory no? And if this enduring ‘me’ is an illusion then so is the passage of time.

Emphasis, these days, seems to fall too heavily on humanity’s need to push, to dream, to work to achieve a lasting happiness. People seem to forget that everything they’ve ever been, known, and have yet to experience moves. People seem to forget that life is change.