A friend of mine who is Costa Rican has always used the phrase "in this moment" when referring to "right now" in conversation and I have always loved to hear her say it. Something about those words put together evoked a great feeling about the current event we were discussing. It's hard to describe but I think that "in this moment" made the present seem more precious and valuable. I don't know - maybe it's just me but that was the feeling I had with those words said as she did.
Today I thought about that and other word constructions that have touched me and generated emotion over the years and I thought I'd take some time and look some of them up and share. They may just be a few words strung together in a sentence but somehow I responded to them with my heart. Enjoy!
"...And I have heard my grandmother speak of her first ball when she was seventeen. And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets". Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
"Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion". Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"...in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near..." ee. cummings, somewhere it have never traveled,gladly beyond
"... encouraged me in their writing, I wish to express particular gratitude". Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
"All night, this soft rain from the distant past. No wonder I sometimes waken as a child". Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows
"And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared". John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage". David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Wish You Were Here
And my favorite phrase, all of it! "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" - Habakkuk 2:14
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