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Human life is always “not yet.” All “having” is governed by fear, all “not having” by desire. Thus the future in which man lives is always the expected future, fully determined by his present longings or fears.
Like time, life “comes from what is not yet, passes through what is without space, and disappears into what is no longer.”
In the Now, past and future meet.
“Love, but be careful what you love.”
By desiring and depending on things “outside myself,” that is, on the very things I am not, I lose the unity that holds me together by virtue of which I can say “I am.”
“For there are those who die with equanimity; but perfect are those who live with equanimity.”
The sign of caritas on earth is fearlessness, whereas the curse of cupiditas is fear—fear of not obtaining what is desired and fear of losing it once it is obtained.
