But whatever the future brings, it will not be what you expect, or what you think, and when it comes, it will be now too.
It too will be a moment that can be very easily missed, just as easily missed as this one.
And it too will be subject to continual change and the vagaries of all the causes and conditions that gave rise to it in previous moments.
For now is already the future and it is already here.
Arriving someplace more desireable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

pp. 238-241, Coming to our Senses, Jon Kabat-Zinn

… study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands,…

Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval.

Note that the word ‘sapiens’ itself is the present participle – indicating unfolding in the present moment – of the Latin verb ‘sacred”, to know, to taste, to perceive, to be wise.
Paying attention and atunement to these cycles of nature, of the day and of the hours and the seasons, long before there were clocks and calendars to mark the passage of time, were critical to survival.

pp. 145-146, Coming to Our Senses, Jon Kabat-Zinn

… the necessity of ‘repetition’, ie the periodic recreation of the world – is not understood. The function of repetition (through ritual) is ‘existential’: it s the desire to continue life, the hope to prolong it, ad infinitum (commits to memory).

Merceia Eliade, Journals
p. 111, Thomas Moore, Education of the Heart

If any of our actions lack care and thoughtfulness, they remain largely unconscious and raw.
Staying in touch with religious, cultural, and family traditions may also give out actions an impersonal, eternal quality that is essential to ritual.

p. 111, Thomas Moore, Education of the Heart

“The only way out”, as Helen Keller wisely observed, “is through.”

P. 133, Coming to our senses, Jon Kabat-Zinn

… forgiveness can be accepted only if the power of acceptance is effective in man – biblically speaking, if the power of grace is effective in man.

p. 107, Thomas Moore, Education of the Heart

Forgiveness means giving up hope for a different past. It means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and that the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused.

Without knowing nature we cannot know who we are or what we are to do. Nature shapes us as much as we shape nature, in that mutual engagement is the fulfillment of both.
As each year of technological change comes and goes, it seems that nature loses its influence over the shaping of human life. It still manifests its power for beauty and for devastation, but the human response seems to be an increasingly defensive and offensive struggle.

p. 65, Thomas Moore, Meditations