. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
LaoziThe sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
LaoziThe Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Laozi