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[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.” — Ford Madox Ford, Critical Essays of Ford Madox Ford

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

"When I stay in one Place,
I can hardly think at all;
my body had to be on the move to set my mind going."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

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Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?

We must try to keep the mind in tranquility. For just as the eye which constantly shifts its gaze, now turning to the right or to the left, now incessantly peering up and down, cannot see distinctly what lies before it, but the sight must be fixed firmly on the object in view if one would make his vision of it clear, so too man's mind when distracted by his countless worldly cares cannot focus itself distinctly on the truth.

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