toameresteppingstonetothefuture,withnointrinsicvalue.
Clock time then turns into psychological time. Your life's
journeyisnolonger anadventure,just anobsessiveneedto
arrive,toattain,to"makeit."Younolongerseeorsmellthe
flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the
beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you
whenyouarepresentintheNow.

§

I can see the supreme importanceof the Now, but I cannot
quitegoalongwithyouwhenyousaythattimeisacomplete
illusion.

WhenIsay"timeisanillusion,"myintentionisnottomake
a philosophical statement. I am just reminding you of a
simple fact—afactsoobviousthatyoumayfindit hardto
grasp and may even find it meaningless — but once fully
realized,itcancut likeaswordthroughall themind-created
layersofcomplexityand"problems."Letmesayitagain:the
present moment is all you ever have. There is never atime
whenyourlifeisnot"thismoment."Isthisnotafact?

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You will not have any doubt that psychological time is a
mental disease if you look at its collective manifestations.
They occur, for example, in the form of ideologies such as
communism, national socialism or anynationalism, or rigid
religious belief systems, which operate under the implicit
assumption that the highest goodlies in the future and that