Animals just live for the moment. Dreaming of the future is a particularly human quality I think.


The great trick is to really be in present-time while also dreaming of the future-- living IN the moment, FOR the present and the future.... including the dream in the moment of NOW being enjoyed and experienced-- holding both in one's mind/spirit.... attending to ALL of the present (which includes the seeds of the future), with aware intentionality.

In other words-- not either/or but and/and.

There is room in the universe (and thus the mind) for more than one thing to be so at any given time. That's why I tend to find pissing contests so... evident of a limited view.

~Susan