NOW AND FUTURE PASSED

THE PAST

The past is a just a grab-bag of imperfect products of experience and soul-memory, re-hashed now.

One thing I've noticed about past history -- for most people it keeps repeating itself.

People who drive down the freeway with their heads glued to the rear-view mirror
Keep crashing into things.

THE FUTURE

The future is nothing more than a bunch of imagined effects and possible consequences of what I create now.

The Past and the Future are constructs of the mind. Psychologists assume (usually safely) that the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. It's a fairly safe assumption because the nexus between Past and Future can only be broken by a conscious, deliberate act in the Present moment and most people, outside of a sneeze or an orgasm, are rarely, if ever fully present and available to Now.
The assumption of connection is totally invalidated, however, if there is any kind of conscious intervention or reinvention in the present.
Whether the connection between the so-called Past and Future is intact or broken, answers for the future do not lie in the past; they spring from questions asked here and now. If no creative questions are asked now, now will merely repeat itself ad infinitum.

NOW

Without Now, the past and the future do not exist, even in fantasy.
Now is not only the fulcrum,
The balance-point between the Past and the Future,
The Present is also the father,
The source of both the Past and the Future.
Which came first -- the past or the present?
The present.
Without this present, there is no past, or future.

Now is the greatest "I" has ever been, and will ever be;
Evolution does not slide backwards.

Now is the source and the purpose of all I once was
And the launching pad for what I will be.
Why waste time and energy pondering who you think you might have been in the past
Or what you think you might become in the future
When you don't know who you truly are now?
When you finally get around to knowing what you are now,
There is nothing to justify --
So the past is no longer important
(When your destination is in sight, the map of how you got there is irrelevant).
When you finally get around to knowing what you are now,
The future takes care of itself.

Every Now moment is a permissive virgin;
Learn to live in harmony with this now.

Instead of trying to squeeze yourself into something you think you ought to be,
Get to know who you are now;
(How hard can that be?)
If you want something to remember in your old age,
Make each now moment memorable;
Live it as fully as you can stand..........
And then some.

"What will become of me?" your mind cries in some anguish.
What will you become?
You will become what you already are -- YOU.
Get comfortable with that.
If you're really desperate to change what you become,
Make some choices to expand what you are now.

You're living an adventure.
Do whatever you're drawn to
And cop to the consequences.
Be a "yes" sayer.

This is the tyranny of Now --
Now never ends. Now is forever.
It has never been any other way,
Except in the glovebox of your mind.