The Eternal Now!
NOW!
You can’t change the past, and you can’t get to the future any faster than the rest of us, so really the only thing you have to work with is NOW.
So I’ve got a challenge for you. Think of everything as though it is present: Think of yourself in the “I am” state. Not in the “I was” or the “I will be” state. The fact is: the “I was” will never be again and the “I will be” you will never get to (kind of like a dangling carrot). So the only one you really can be is the “I am”.
Act in the NOW! What can you do NOW to make NOW more productive, more peaceful, more pleasant, improved? What can you think now that will make better NOW? How can you think, act, and be NOW that will be your true authentic self?
We have all had “many wrong doings” in our lives. Those were the past. You can’t go back a relive them so why try. And why waste another minute in the NOW worrying about it? Think in the NOW and act in the NOW and you will see that is it less easy to do wrong.
Live NOW – not in the past nor in the future – but NOW!
“Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal Now does always last.”
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
“Time has only a relative existence.”
Carlyle
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Chesterfield (1694-1773)
“Time is breath. Try to understand this.”
Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
“There is a bridge between time and eternity; and this bridge is the Spirit of man. Neither day nor night cross that bridge, nor old age, nor death nor sorrow.”
Upanishada
“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”
Albert Einstein
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place and this too will be swept away.”
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)
“You wake up in the morning, and lo! Your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the magic tissue of the universe of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow. It is kept for you.”
Arnold Bennet
“The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that which we call the past.”
H. P. Blavatsky
 The purpose of today’s assignment is to prove to yourself that you indeed do have great power to create, and that power resides in NOW.Right NOW, go do that thing that you have been putting off. Go do it NOW! Get it done NOW! Don’t wait another second. Go!See, you do have control. And that control resides in the eternal moment of NOW! |
So you see dear friend, if you try with all your might to make your NOW the best that NOW can be you will be assured that your future will be bright and beautiful, and your past will only be filled with memories of successes and brilliant living to be proud of without regrets. Ask yourself what is the best that you can do NOW and then DO IT NOW!!
