Now, it’s a basic mythological principle, I would say, that what is referred to in mythology as “the other world” is really (in psychological terms) “the inner world.” And what is spoken of as “future” is “now.”*
Joseph Campbell

We are not made wise by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.**
George Bernard Shaw

What many think of as the present
is the past, whilst
others know that what is too quickly dismissed
as the future
is now;
The latter form a space or ritual to
slow down their thinking, their
speaking, their
actioning, to be able to hear
what-can-be before filling
the moment
to overflowing:
In their intense meditation the hidden
sound of things approaching
reaches them and they listen reverently
while in the street outside the
people hear nothing at all.^

*Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
**Seth Godin’s The Carbon Almanac;
^Constantin Cavafy from Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness.