The best way to prepare for the future is the way you prepared for the present moment: by doing good things. That’s what the principle of karma is all about.

"Many of the issues that clutter up the mind have to do with thinking way off into the future: what’s going to happen then, what’s going to happen after that? But the future is very uncertain, so uncertain that a lot of your plans for the future are going to be totally useless. You do know, though, that the best way to prepare for the future is the way you prepared for the present moment: by doing good things. That’s what the principle of karma is all about."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "A Self Rightly Directed"

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