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Why Living “Presently†Could Ruin Your Entire Life
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| November 25, 2015
| Benjamin Hardy
Posted on 11/27/2015 6:03:04 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2
“Living for the moment” has been pushed as part of the pop cultural revolution of the 1960s.
It has always been extremely destructive.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:07:14 PM PST
by
marktwain
To: sparklite2
No problem. At my age I spend most of my time in the past ... so to speak.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:11:45 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Out of my mind ... back in 5)
To: marktwain
And if you can't be with the one you love honey, Love the one you're with --Stephen Stills. That about sums up this train of thought.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:13:30 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: sparklite2
I never have liked the “live in the present” idea. Animals live in the present because they live by instinct with little or no memory or planning for the future. The ability to not live in the present is one thing that separates us from animals.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:15:03 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
To: marktwain
There's a point to living in the now. There is no anxiety for a future if you live NOW. I do this myself. My morality is Christian-based, and if I live morally, my NOW SELF feels better about myself.
I also have far less by way of fear by living in the now.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:16:47 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
To: KarlInOhio
I dunno, it works for me. Plan for a future, but live in the now. Learn from a past, but live in the now.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:17:41 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
To: doc1019
Agreed. I have a whole lot more past behind me than future ahead. Living in the moment at my age is a willing appreciation of the consciousness we will all lose.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:18:38 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: KarlInOhio
” little or no memory “
Never had a dog?
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:19:40 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: sparklite2
My understanding by what many mean by 'living presently' has nothing to do with living for the moment, that right now is all that exists, and that we should only do that which makes us feel good'
It has much more to do with appreciating the present moment, taking joy in it and really observing and experiencing; and not borrowing trouble with worry. -JT
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:21:53 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:23:02 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
To: sparklite2
That’s why I prefer to live in the future. “Tomorrow I’ll mow the grass. Tomorrow I’ll go to the store. Tomorrow I’ll clean the gutters.”
To: Jamestown1630
It’s not living for the moment, it’s living in the moment. Big, big difference.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:26:39 PM PST
by
statered
("And you know what I mean.")
To: sparklite2
The only moment we have is the present moment. When the next one comes, it too is the present moment. Live the best you can in this moment and you set a chain of causation for the next one.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:29:08 PM PST
by
TBP
(Nous sommes tout Francais.)
To: sparklite2
Now is the only time we CAN live.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:30:02 PM PST
by
TBP
(Nous sommes tout Francais.)
To: statered
Exactly. So many of us don’t stop to notice the beauty around us all the time in nature, other people, art, etc.; and, most importantly, to feel Grateful for it!
I think gratitude is one of the most useful and edifying emotions that we can feel.
-JT
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:30:03 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
To: TBP
My causation chain needs timing.
To: Jamestown1630
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:31:00 PM PST
by
TBP
(Nous sommes tout Francais.)
To: statered
Yuge, as someone might say.
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:31:28 PM PST
by
TBP
(Nous sommes tout Francais.)
To: TBP
I think it was an old Jewish meme that went, “Take time to savor every moment of life, because when you’re dead, you’re dead for a very long time.”
Or as Firesign Theatre put it in an interview with a resurrected Marilyn Monroe ....
“Thank you for being here, Miss Monroe.”
“It’s good to be here. It’s good to be ANYWHERE.”
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posted on
11/27/2015 6:33:38 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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