We commonly think there are three kinds of time: the past, the present and the future. We often guide our actions on the basis of regret for our past actions and missed opportunities, or from concern for our future well-being. The problem with living for the future is that the future never arrives. It doesn’t exist except as an invented concept. There is only NOW. Now extends in all places and at all times. The past does not really exist, either. Now, the present, is the only time there is, the only time there has ever been, the only time there ever will be.
This is why it is so absurdly easy to gain enlightenment -- the infinite light is already here, now, within the grasp of each of us. Nothing more is required than ceasing the attempt to live in the past or the future.
The Sun is always shining; we have only to stop identifying with the clouds passing in front of it to be free.
[From Ascension, MSI]
