To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.Eckhart Tolle
If you set yourself a goal and work toward it, you are using clock time. You are aware of where you want to go , but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you are taking at this moment. If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a more complete sense of self in it, the Now is no longer honored. It becomes reduced to a mere stepping stone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Clock time then turns into psychological time. Your life's journey is no longer an adventure, just and obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to "make it." You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle)
I never feel age... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. (Louise Nevelson)
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: What do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. (Randy Pausch)
It takes a very long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso)
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