the thought of tomorrow
“So we have to be patient with ourselves. Over and over again we think we need to be somewhere else, and we must find the truth right here, right now; we must find our joy here, now. How seductive it is, the thought of tomorrow. We must find our understanding here. We must find it here; it is always here; this is where the grass is green.”
+ John Tarrant
Calling on the name of Avalokiteshvara
originally published in the winter 1991 issue of Mind Moon Circle
[via whiskey river]
Marcia and I seem to go back and forth with the Whiskey River quotes, but I couldn’t help myself today, this one just gripped me. The quarter-life crisis has been upon me for some time now, thoughly only recently in a formal manner. And oh indeed, “how seductive it is” to spend hours painting the picture of my “perfect” life in my head. The antsiness plagues me, an incessant unease, just under the surface, waiting for a change. Any old change, it feels like at times.. but this one is right on. If we are constantly obsessed with the future, we will spend a lifetime missing out on the now.
