Alfred North WhiteheadThe foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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We all know that the present moment is the only time we truly have. We try to make the best of it, but because we can’t see the future, we still think everything will be okay only because we are alive right now. But, if you look forward to the afterlife, you can still think about what could happen there just by trying to understand what is happening in the present moment. We tend to look at things that are good in the present and bad in the future while just forgetting about all of it when it comes to the past. The past is gone, but it still feels like it happened yesterday, so why not take advantage of that?
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