Start with the observation
The past cannot be re-entered and the future cannot be controlled, yet both occupy the present mind.
Follow the reasoning
- If the past is only annihilation, memory becomes a gallery of permanent losses.
- If the future is only exposure to chance, imagination becomes a machine for rehearsing danger.
- A life held within knowledge and purpose allows memory to become gratitude and the future to become trust without denying responsibility.
A passage to hold beside it
“What are you? Where do you come from? And where are you going?” 1
Read plainly
Peace is not forgetting the past or predicting the future. It is placing both inside a meaning larger than personal control.
Try observing this
Notice one recurring memory and one future fear. Ask what hidden belief about control joins them.
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