24-11-2020
Yesterday has no power over today or tomorrow. The past has no power over how we live our life in the present or in the future. The past appears to have power only because we give it power. The power does not come from the past. The past does not exist in reality; the past exists only as memory and memory exists only as reference.
Memory has intrinsic utilities, but no inherent power. Without memory we lose the sense of temporal continuity and self-identity. We use our memory to guide our present action, yet memory in itself has no power to dictate or determine our present action. We are in truth free to begin our life anew right now. To know this is the beginning of freedom.
Freedom is not a static condition which, once achieved, can be retained, but a dynamic state which must be attained ever anew. The locus in which we attain freedom is always and only the now. The now in which we attain freedom is not a moment in time but the momentum of eternity. To be free is to be in the now—the eternal now. And to be in the now is to stand at the origin of creation.