“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”

“For the past is passed and will never return, the future we know not, and only the present can be called our own.”

“We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.”

“Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.”

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”