How to think about time | Psyche Guides
our view of the past is dependent on the state of the citta in the present.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
These truths about the uncontrollability of the past and the unknowability of the future explain why so many spiritual traditions seem to converge on the same advice: that we should aspire to confine our attentions to the only portion of time that really is any of our business—this one, here in the present.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“Walk the long gallery of the past, of empires and kingdoms succeeding each other without number. And you can also see the future, for surely it will be exactly the same, unable to deviate from the present rhythm. It’s all one whether we’ve experienced forty years or an aeon. What more is there to see?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
