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1. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2019 02:12:31 EST hosh
   (from a friend in India)
   
   Look to this day!
   For it is life, the very life of life.
   In its brief course
   lie all the varieties and realities of your existence:
   The bliss of growth
   The glory of action
   The splendour of beauty.
   For yesterday is but a dream
   And tomorrow only a vision.
   But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.
   And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
   Look well therefore to this day!
   SUCH IS THE SALUTATION TO THE DAWN.
   Sanskrit.
   
   Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/look-to-this-day/
   1. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2019 07:49:07 EST hosh

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      It doesn't seem to have a Sanskrit origin. It was first noticed in English in the early 20th century, with the claim that it was from Sanskrit - oriental wisdom writings were in vogue at the time. Then someone has translated it into Sanskrit. My Indology professor used to call this sort of thing the "pizza effect". (Pizza is said to have been a drab cheap meal in Italy before Americans discovered it and turned it into a multi-million dollar food crazy, so the Italians re-discovered the value of it and got in on the act.) Same happened with yoga in India.