Reflection Starter: “Look Well to This Day”

Look Well to This Day
(This is a poem dating back many centuries. A number of sources attribute it as coming from Sanskrit, an ancient language of India.)

Look well to this day,
For it and it alone is life.
In its brief course
Lie all the essence of your existence:

The Glory of Growth
The Satisfaction of Achievement
The Splendor of Beauty

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is but a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.