Schopenhauer: Only the Present is Real | Counsels & Maxims 5

"We should never forget that the present is the only reality, the only certainty."
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Section 5 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 Right Balance
2:07 Only Reality
6:33 Future Evils
9:28 Peace of Mind
12:10 What to Remember
14:06 Eloquent Ending
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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis
Thumbnail Image: 1815 Portrait, By Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl - Schopenhauer-Archiv der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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Thanks for reading this. I agree with his first sentiments of the appropriate time for the present and future, which is a mature view. Later when he over prioritizes the present I don't appreciate it.
But the deeper problem is what we call worrying of the past or future is simply unbridled parts of our subconscious that cannot be deleted from existence by living in the present, and therefore work to integrate them must be undertaken or there will never ever be any peace.
Knowledge of how to do that is available from ancient and modern practices.
And so to answer his question is not to make statements about how to deal with how we are ... but to complete how we are through particular practices. Simply sitting and making statements about how we aportion our time is lazy and will not work.
You will be saying exactly the same non-working thing the day you die unless your whole approach changes.
And I dare say this applies for the entire society that likes to make pronouncements about how things should be or could be or how we are to understand them ... whilst it fails to deal with even one underlying cause.

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