longing for things to come

“It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its own until the very end. For such as soul to never be at rest–by longing for things to come it will lose the ability to enjoy present things.”

-Seneca (via The Daily Stoic)

This complements some of the passages I’ve shared from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle; one of the things that has always stuck out to me from The Power of Now is that we have everything we need for this moment—you lack nothing you need in the present moment.

When we start feeling that we are without, it’s a moment of living in the future (maybe the past, too, but most likely the future).

Don’t let your projections of the unknown future rob you of enjoying the present moment, which is, as Eckhart Tolle explains, the only moment that ever exists.

See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,

JC