Quote #18

"...my goodness don't you remember when you went first to school. You went to kindergarten and in the kindergarten the idea was to push along so that you could get to the first grade, and then push along so that you could get to second grade, third grade, so on going up and up then you went to hight school and this was a great transition in life and now the pressure has been put on, you must get ahead, you must go up the grade and finally be good enough to go to college. And then when you get to college you still going step by step, step by step, up to the great moment when you are ready to go out to the world. And when you get out into this famous world, comes the struggle for success in profession or business. And again there seems to be a ladder before you, something for each you're reaching all the time. And then, suddenly, when you are about 40 or 45 years old, in the middle of life, you wake up one day and say "Huh? I've arrived". And by Joe I feel pretty much the same as I always felt. In fact I'm not so sure that I don't feel a little bit cheated. Because, you see, you were fooled. You're always living for somewhere where you weren't. And while, as I said it is of tremendous use for us to be able to look ahead in this way and to plan, there is no use planning for a future, which when you get to it and it becomes a present you won't be there, you will be in some other future which hadn't yet arrived. And so, in this way, one is never able actually to inherit and enjoy the fruits of ones actions. You can't live at all unless you can live fully now..."