The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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