If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Being in the present avoids worry about the future or past.
- In plain terms
- Living now stops you from worrying.
- What can you take from it?
- Focus on the present moment.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you stay present?
Another view
It is hard to maintain constant presence.
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