Present time is very short – so short, indeed, that for some it seems not to exist. It is always in motion, it flows and hurries on; it ceases to be before it arrives. Seneca, On the Shortness of Life 10.6 Keep this in mind, that each of us lives only this present and indivisible moment. Everything else has either already been lived or is uncertain. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.10 Stoic reflections on the present are usually more practical, though. They seek to address the bad habit of burdening the mind with worry about the future. Part of the argument is that imaginings of the past and
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