"You are so anxious about the future..." - Quote by Dalai Lama
You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.
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“Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.”
“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.”
“Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.”
“If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?”