All unhappiness (when there is no immediate cause for sorrow) comes from excessive concentration on the past or from extreme preoccupation with the future. No animal ever says: “I have suffered this pain for six years, and it will last until I die.” But because a human being can unite the past to the present by memory, and the future to the present by imagination, it is often necessary to distract him in his sufferings - to break up the continuity of misery. Humans alone can bring the past to mind, so that it weighs on the present moment with its accumulated heritage and they can also bring the future into the present, so as to imagine its occurrences as happening now. A human being is the only time-conscious creature. Each day has enough troubles of its own (Matthew 6:24). ![]() Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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