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The ego's needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatenedand so lives in a state of fear and want

Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind areinseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops - unless youchoose to use it.

The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity andthe future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whateverform. Both are illusions.

Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the

light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of thelight, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is"borrowed" from the Now.

Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological timeand denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry -all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough

presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness,bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by toomuch past, and not enough presence.

Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now.Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.

Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannotsurvive in the actuality of the Now.

If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it doesnot necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing.It may be sufficient to change the how. "How" is always moreimportant than "what."

See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to theresult that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullestattention to whatever the moment presents.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for

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your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the mostprofound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

Keep your inner space clear

There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because itdoesn't exist. It's a mental phantom. You can stop this health- andlife-corroding insanity simply by acknowledging the presentmoment.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting tostart living.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation.

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve yourlife. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is alreadywhole, complete, perfect. Your life situation consists of yourcircumstances and your experiences. There is nothing wrong withsetting goals and striving to achieve things. The mistake lies inusing it as a substitute for the feeling of life, for Being.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of spaceand time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in

the vertical dimension of the timeless Now. Your outer journey maycontain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the stepyou are taking right now.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive inyour absence.

There is nothing that you need to understand before you canbecome present.