"

The time is now, the place is here.

Stay in the present.

You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never

come exactly as you plan or hope for.

"

Dan Millman

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"

If you don't get what you want, you suffer;

if you get what you don't want, you suffer;

even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

Your mind is your predicament.

It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death.

But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

"

Dan Millman