You can’t act in the past. You can’t know the future. The only levers you can actively pull are the ones in front of you ...

Living How family Passover celebrations incorporate past, present and future Published: Apr. 10, 2025, 7:54 p.m.

The present moment is just that, a snapshot in time. Past experiences provide its context, and future possibilities offer potential consequences—good or bad, along any measure of scale.

We are often caught between anxiety over the future and remorse over the past. Yet philosophers teach that only the present moment truly exists. How can we learn to live in it?