We all exist because of events that take place in this eternal stream of presence. The future is tied to the past, it is not separate. But it all happens in the present moment. The future will happen because of what we do now, and what we do now is because of what came before. So you could say we are also only here because of what will happen in the future. Only the illusion of time, based on our memory and imagination, causes us to believe in this fiction.

The universe is strung together by the law of cause and effect. Nothing can happen outside of that law. And so nothing happens that isn’t directly tied to everything else. We are the result of ancestors meeting, stars exploding, gravity and everything else. We cannot escape our future. But when we learn to sit in total presence, we’re able to release the grip of the past, set aside our desires and fears of the future, and realize the blissful eternity in the here and now.