We are past present and future at the same time and at all times.
We experience ourselves as moving through time: we remember the past, inhabit the present, and imagine the future. But, all three are present within us simultaneously.
The past lives in memories, habits, language, our bodies, the stories we tell, the scars we carry, and the skills we've acquired.
The future already exists as anticipation, fear, hope, intention, imagination, and possibility. It influences today's decisions as much as yesterday does.
The present is the place where past and future can actually be encountered.
In my imagination, the present is less a thin line between two infinities than a meeting place where past and future continuously converse.
We are not traveling through time.
We are the place where time gathers.
Every choice is made by a self composed of accumulated past, responding to a present, while already leaning toward a future it is helping to create.
Past, present, and future may all coexist, and what changes is not what exists but our conscious experience of moving through them.
I reject the idea that identity is fixed. We are never merely what has happened to us, nor merely what is happening, nor merely what we hope to become. We are the continuous conversation among all three.
We are not creatures suspended between yesterday and tomorrow.
We are yesterday remembering itself,
tomorrow calling itself,
and today listening to both.
I have explored this conversation among what was, is and may be in BEFORE IT BECOMES MEDICINE. WHAT ALLOWS SOMETHING TO COME ALIVE? IT IS NOW AVAILABLE here.
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