We always live in the past or in the future. Especially as you get older, the past becomes extraordinarily significant, and the future is only what you call death. So you go to the past and avoid the future – how happy you were, what a lovely youth you had, or what a miserable existence you had. So we live between the past and the future. If you are still young, you still have the future to make something of, and you shape it according to the past. So you are caught between the past and the future. Observe your own minds, your own life; do not merely hear what I am saying, but actually observe your own existence. You will see how divided it is between the past and the future, and if it is not divided, you are merely living in the immediate, from day to day, making the best of that. Because there may be a war, an economic revolution, a social upheaval – anything may happen tomorrow; tomorrow is uncertain.

From Collected Works, Vol. 13

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