The Sanctuary of the Now

If there is sorrow, grief or regret in you, you are living in the past. If there is hope, desire or longing, you are living in the future. Most believe they suffer in the now and escape into past or future – the opposite is true. All suffering takes place with reference to past and future; the only escape is into the sanctuary of the now. Thought takes you into time; perception takes you into space. Without reference to either, you are simply present – not here as a place or now as a moment, but the dimensionless, timeless, ever-present place where being is. You were not born into the world at a particular time and place; you are eternally present here and now. Experience is born in you. Now is the portal through which eternity passes into time and through which the separate self returns to the eternal. Above this portal is written: ‘I am’.