I weigh my past against my future, but find them both admirable, cannot give either the preference, and find nothing to grumble at save the injustice of Providence that has so clearly favored me.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all. When it does anything more – when it tries too hard, for example, when it worries, when it becomes apprehensive about the future – it lowers the effectiveness of those forces and may even cause the devitalized body to fall ill. In my present state, awareness was not referred to as ego; it was, so to speak, on its own.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
The lie is the future, one may venture to say […]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.
astonishment / future / woman
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy… It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
expectancy / future / present
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
future / generosity / present