sinnest not now. The while thou art bewailing the past every gate of thy soul remaineth unguarded against the entrance of sin now. Thou shalt not rise by grieving over the irremediable past, but by remedying the present.
The foolish man, loving the boggy sidepath of procrastination rather than the firm Highway of Present Effort, says, “I will rise early to-morrow; I will get out of debt to-morrow; I will carry out my intentions to-morrow.” But the wise man, realizing the momentous import of the Eternal Now, rises early to-day; keeps out of debt to-day; carries out his intentions to-day; and so never departs from strength and peace and ripe accomplishment.
What is done now remains; what is to be done to-morrow does not appear. It is wisdom to leave what has not arrived, and to attend to what is; and to attend to it with such consecration of soul and concentration of effort as shall leave no possible loophole for regret to creep in.
A man’s spiritual comprehension being clouded by the illusions of self, he says,
