“Whatever is happening is happening now. All that is happening is happening now. There is now. That is all. It is an observation that has been made before, but has it? If you see words to that effect as if printed in your memory, if you hear the remarks as if echoing in your mind’s ear, you are still experiencing them in the present and the present alone, and to that degree you are the inventor of those words, those remarks, an originator. You have coined a new currency, though the diminution of the pride you feel in this achievement comes right on its heels, with the recognition that only you can spend it, and what would you spend it on? Until the future, which does not yet exist, which may never exist, there is nothing you can offer yourself that you do not already have.” He found the note and lost it instantly—or did he?
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