A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.