Future - Quotes
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything - anything - be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
We are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
Any one strong individual could change the future for countless others, that it happened all the time.
It isn`t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It`s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it`s too late.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
I`m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I`m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn`t exist and never shall. There is only now.