The past belongs to thought; the future belongs to thought. Past and future are parts of your mind. The now is existence — it is not a part of your mind. This moment does not belong to your mind. The moment that has gone belongs to it; the moment not yet come belongs to it. But this moment never belongs to you. On the contrary, you belong to this moment. You are here, now, present. Your mind is somewhere else — always somewhere else.

Drop your burden.

I was reading about a Sufi mystic. He was travelling along a deserted road when he came upon a farmer with an ox-cart, stuck fast in the mud. The farmer had been carrying apples in his cart, but somewhere along the rough road the back board had worked loose and the apples had spilled out one by one. He had not noticed; the farmer was completely unaware.

When his cart became stuck, he first tried every way to pull it free, but all his efforts were in vain. So he thought, “Now I must unload the cart, then I’ll be able to pull it out.” He looked behind him — and there were not even a dozen apples left. The whole load was gone. You can feel his pain. The Sufi records the cry of the exasperated farmer: “Stuck, damn it! Stuck! And not a single cursed apple left to unload!” The one way out had been to lighten the cart in order to free it — but now there was no load left to drop.

Fortunately, you are not stuck in quite that way. You can still drop your burden. Your cart is heavily loaded. You can drop the burden of the mind, and the moment the mind is no longer there, you can fly — you gain the very ability to fly.

— Osho, “The Book of Secrets, Vol. 2”