Deuteronomy 28:67 · World English Bible
In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
Here is a portrait of a mind that can never sit still in the hour it is given. At sunrise it aches for evening, at evening it begs for morning, always leaning toward some other moment.
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EGO & BEING
Here is a portrait of a mind that can never sit still in the hour it is given. At sunrise it aches for evening, at evening it begs for morning, always leaning toward some other moment. This restless leaning is the fear of thine heart, a dread that makes the present unbearable and sends the mind fleeing into a time that has not come.
Such a life is exhausting because the escape never arrives. Each moment gets thrown away unlived. A person trapped this way is not fighting the day around them so much as warring with now itself, and that war has no end while the running continues. Peace begins the moment the fleeing stops and this hour is allowed to simply be.
Ego v. Being lens
What part of today am I trying to survive instead of live?
Do not dwell on what has gone or long for what has not come. Whoever lives this one present moment fully is the one who lives well.
The one who stands on tiptoe to see further cannot stand for long. Straining toward what is not here costs you your footing in what is.
Those who live only in expectation lose the day they are in. We are always getting ready to live, and so we never live.
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Ego v. Being