The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The present moment is the inevitable result of history and the cause of the future.
- In plain terms
- The past created the present, and the present creates the future.
- What can you take from it?
- Your present actions are shaped by the past and shape the future.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does your past shape now?
- How will now shape the future?
Another view
Randomness and free will can disrupt strict causality.
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