He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Jules Michelet
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James Allen says, “He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.” Your thoughts are not confined to the moment you are thinking them, but can travel into the future or the past. So it is that your thoughts can act upon the present to affect the future.

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