I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future.

Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There is nothing more than this.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Don't waste your time and energy on revenge. Focus on building a better future.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.