Dear Future Self,
I'm no longer trying to become you.
Not because I've given up,
But because I finally understand:
You emerge from how gently I hold this moment,
Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.
Dear Future Self, I'm no longer trying to become you. Not because I've given up, But because I finally understand: You emerge from how gently I hold this moment, Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.
1) Recognize that right now already is the future. You are currently experiencing the future of all your Past Selves. Their choices have come to fruition. If you would like better fruits, make your Right Now Self into someone who, as a habit, rolls out the red carpet for Future Self. Imagine if someone had already done that for you. Highly discipli... See more
David Cain • The elegant secret to self-discipline
I know it’s tempting to believe some future moment has your happiness. That, someday, you’ll figure out how to solve your problems and finally arrive in that place where you can really enjoy things. But your life has already begun. This is it. We don’t know what happens once we die but, even if we lived forever, all we would ever be able to experie
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I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
I suppose what I’m trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you can’t seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See more
I suppose what I’m trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you can’t seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See more
Like a river flows
I learned that there is nothing in the future to rush off to that can offer me anything more than this precious moment that you and I are in every instant. I realized that, more often than not, my mind is somewhere else—a past regret or a future worry, anywhere other than right here.
Richard Carlson • Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How to Create a more Peaceful, Simpler Life from the Inside Out
To be truly grateful for our present moment is to genuinely be at peace with time.
Chris Schembra • Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours
What I want to say most is that I am not an improved or better version of myself than I was a year ago because that is no longer a goal — but I am a truer version, a closer-in version, a more expansive and open version, a less clinging-to-certainty version, and that, to me, counts for a lot more than seeking to endlessly upgrade myself.