FUTURE?

For as long as your consciousness is still rooted in, identified with, the reality your Mind presents you with, living in the here-now is an impossibility. Instead, you will be fluctuating between past and future and depending on your psychological/mental/physical state of being this will be a reality coming in varying shades from utterly joyful to raging with anger, heavy depression, paralizing fears etc.
Especially in difficult or depressing situations many tend to become obsessed with the fervent wish to know what the future might hold for them. Either out of the fear that it may be worse than the present moment or the hope it may be much improved. Yet unless you are willing to truly recognize your present circumstances and to accept your own part in it as what it is, the "future" is never going to be any different from the here-now. Even though there will be times where you are believing it has changed, simply because its outward appearence has varied. Life is an wheel endlessly turning in exactly the same spot confronting you with the same obstacles over and over again unless you wake up. And by showing the willingness to learn, thus growing in consciousness, surmount your own limitations. In which case the wheel is transformed into an upward-spinning spiral, endowing you with the possibility to unfurl your full potential.