Nowness
The past and the future are directions to point at, not places to get stuck in. This morning I went on a “bush walk” in Phelwana Game Lodge near Kruger National Park in South Africa. Our guide showed us a buffalo thorn tree, which has hooked thorns pointing inwards and straight thorns pointing outwards. The Shangaan people say these represent the past and the future. This reminds us that we sometimes use our remembered past and imagined future to defend our present. But if we get caught in either the past or present, we will only harm ourselves.
— Wayne Visser
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