Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the
Now.
Nothingwilleverhappeninthefuture;itwillhappenin
theNow.
What youthinkofasthepastisamemorytrace,stored
inthemind,ofaformerNow.Whenyourememberthepast,
you reactivate a memory trace — and you do so now. The
future is animagined Now,a projectionof 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
havenorealityoftheirown.Justasthemoonhasnolightof
itsown,but canonlyreflect the light of thesun,soarepast
and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and
reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed"
fromtheNow.
The essence of what I am saying here cannot be
understoodbythemind.Themomentyougraspit,thereisa
shift in consciousness from mind to Being, from time to
presence. Suddenly, everything feels alive, radiates energy,
emanatesBeing.

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In life-threatening emergency situations, the shift in
consciousness from time to presence sometimes happens
naturally. The personality that has a past and a future
momentarilyrecedesandisreplacedbyanintenseconscious
presence,verystillbutveryalertatthesametime.Whatever
response is needed then arises out of that state of
consciousness.