By Oliver Burkeman — 2022
In The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
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CLEAR ALL
Forget about learning from the past and applying those lessons to the future: reclaim and expand the present moment.
Well, in the same way, all sorts of things that we believe to be real--time, past and future, for instance--exist only conventionally. A person who lives for the future, who (like most of us) makes his happiness dependent upon what is coming in the future, is living within an illusion. - Alan Watts