Marcus Aurelius
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Your future holds nothing new – and cannot hold anything new. The mind does not accept anything fresh. It is powerless when it comes to the new, the fresh, and the young. It can only move within the confines of a small world of familiar, known things – and the known is the past. The future is nothing more than a desire to repeat it – perhaps better, of course. Therefore, the future is not fresh either. Only the present is fresh.
You ask me: “Where does freshness come from?”
Freshness never comes and never goes. It is always here, it is always now.
Beautiful words. You read them, and something within you awakens. Regarding living in the present moment and regarding the pain from the past, I recommend reading Eckhart Tolle – he explains very well how to transmute pain from the past and how to live in the present moment.