Future

You sit at the table in the dim light at the border of dawn with your past looking back at you. You reach out but your past withdraws. ?You cannot touch me,? it says, ?I am always out of reach.? You take back your hand and sit facing your past. You ask why it is here. ?I am always with you,? your past says. It gets up and walks around behind you; you turn your head but your past moves to the corner of your eye ? a shadow glimpsed, always elusive. You sense its presence behind you, growing older moment by moment. When you look back across the table your future sits there with its back to you. You cannot see its face - http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2010/04/25/links-and-tweets-of-the-month-ap…

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose - Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), 36th US President

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future - before the time is ripe -- I Ching (BC 1150)

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past, and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible - George Santayana (U.S. (Spanish-born) poet and philosopher, 1863-1952)

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It?s good for seeing where you?ve been. It?s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can?t tell you where you ought to go - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

These days the present feels wrong. These days I feel wistful for the future, for moments of greater chaos when either we or our chlidren?s children will look back and laugh aghast at what we chose today to dramatise, at our naive concerns about the world, at our tragicomic headlines (so quaint! so misguided!) and fear - Siona van Dijk http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2010/07/11/links-and-tweets-of-the-month-ju…

There is not one single future, there are many thousands. Choose the one you want - Marcel Bullinga

There is no past, present or future! What is really happening is that we are constantly undergoing a change of condition Apparently we are being deceived by those impressions of the previous conditions that have remained imprinted as our memories - from The Deceptive Memory by Reinarto Hadipriono http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1550830.php

The Third Millenium is a mathematical accident, not a divine alarm-call - EC, p88 03/01/97

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty - Seneca