Time & Perspective Quote by Uri Geller

Geller’s line is a neat piece of entertainer’s self-branding: it flirts with the mystical, then snaps back to the everyday before anyone can pin him down. “I believe in past lives” opens a door onto the paranormal marketplace he’s long inhabited, where possibility is more valuable than proof. But the immediate pivot - “I know nothing about mine and I don’t want to know” - is the real move. It turns the supernatural into a matter of taste, not evidence, and it preemptively disarms the skeptical follow-up: If he can’t (or won’t) access his own cosmic backstory, he can’t be held accountable for providing it.

The subtext is control. Geller built fame on teasing the boundary between performance and phenomenon; this quote keeps that boundary conveniently foggy. He signals openness to wonder while refusing the kind of specificity that invites verification, contradiction, or embarrassing detail. Past lives become an aesthetic posture rather than a claim with stakes.

Then comes the grounding mantra: “I live in the present, taking one day at a time.” That’s the language of self-help and recovery culture, a secular prayer that reads as relatable and modest. In context, it softens a polarizing figure into a person with ordinary coping strategies, reframing the paranormal not as escapism but as background texture to a disciplined present. The intent isn’t to teach reincarnation; it’s to sound both enchanted and sensible, a duality that has always been the core of his appeal.