Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
Nothing ever happened in the past, it happened in the now.
Nothing will ever happen in the future, it will happen in the now.
What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind of the former now.
The future is an imagined now, a projection of 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 have no reality of their own.
Just as the moon has no light of it’s own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.
The Power of Now Chapter 3. Moving Deeply Into The Now. -Eckhart Tolle
But, you see, the point I am trying to make is that when you come to each moment cleanly, without a previous thought about it, you can create who you are, rather than re-enact who you once were.
Life is a process of creation, and you keep living it as if it were a process of re-enactment!
Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew.
Remember, this is what you are doing here.
You have come to this world in this way, at this time, in the place, to Know Who You Are— and the create Who You Wish to Be.
This is the purpose of all of life. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation. You keep recreating your selves in the image of your next highest idea about yourselves.
Conversations With God • an uncommon dialogue • Book 2 , Chapter 2— Neale Donald Walsch
