"The psychic machinery [of the false self-project] runs by itself, ever exacerbating one’s slavery to conditioning, and, moment to moment, steals attention from the real present and blows it like fluffy spores of milkweed down the lanes of the past or up the streets of the future."

     Philip Novak, "Attention," The encyclopedia of religion, 2nd ed., ed. Lindsay Jones (Detroit:  Macmillan Reference USA, 2005), vol. 1, p. 607 (603-610).