NOTHING EXISTS OUTSIDE THE NOW

 

Aren’t past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than

the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as

how we perceive and behave in the present. And our future goals

determine which actions we take in the present.

You haven’t yet grasped the essence of what I am saying because you

are trying to understand it mentally. The mind cannot understand this.

Only you can. Please just listen.

Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside

the Now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to

happen or be outside the Now? The answer is obvious, is it not?

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now.

Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind,

of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a

memory trace — and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now,

a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the

Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future

obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light

of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and

future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the

eternal present. Their reality is “borrowed” from the Now.

The essence of what I am saying here cannot be understood by the

mind. The moment you grasp it, there is a shift in consciousness from

mind to Being, from time to presence. Suddenly, everything feels

alive, radiates energy, emanates Being.