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.
Perhaps today will be the day when we experience happiness or wisdom. Don’t try to grab that moment and hold on to it with all your might. It’s not under your control how long it lasts. Enjoy it, recognize it, remember it. Having it for a moment is the same as having it forever.
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Instead of chasing a better life by throwing your consciousness into the future, bring it back to the present and let the future chase it there.
David Cameron Gikandi • A Happy Pocket Full of Money, Expanded Study Edition: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now
“In reality, there is only now, if you know how to handle this moment, you know how to handle eternity.” — Sadhguru
Dan McCormick • Awakening Who "I Am": Two Words to Ignite Your Transformation
We often fear that letting go means losing something essential: identity, stability, connection, status.
But what we often gain instead is space.
Room to breathe. Room to grieve. Room to grow.
The truth is, you can’t receive what’s next if your hands are full of what’s no longer yours to carry.
Whether it’s a belief, a plan, or a person — some things c
... See morethis very effort to “become” is the barrier—because you are already carrying your being with you. You need not become anything—simply realize who you are, that’s all. Simply realize who is hidden within you. Improving, whatsoever you improve, you will always be in anxiety and anguish because the very effort to improve is leading you on a wrong path
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between now and what you think your life should be like. And when you miss those moments because you’d rather be doing something else, you are missing your own life. Those moments are gone. You will never get them back.