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Zen Buddhism Teaches Us of the Importance of Living in the Present

By Tim Lott — 2012

Forget about learning from the past and applying those lessons to the future: reclaim and expand the present moment.

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CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life

Look at what’s happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It used to go like this: “How are you?” “Fine.” Now it often goes like this: “How are you?” “Busy.” Or “Too busy.” Or simply “Crazy.

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Edward M. Hallowell
2007
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

“Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it advances through every living moment.

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Alan Burdick
2018
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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World

Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to.

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Haemin Sunim
2025
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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan—there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.

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Tim Ferriss
2025
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

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C. S. Lewis
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We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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C. S. Lewis
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics.

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Jimena Canales
2016
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