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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me not to measure time by saying, 'It was yesterday, and will be tomorrow.' Before my Soul taught me, I imagined the past as an era not to be met with, and the future as an age that I would never witness. But now I know that in the brief moment of the present, all time exists, including everything that is in time - all that is eagerly anticipated, achieved, or realized. My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me not to define a place by saying 'here' or 'there'. Before my Soul taught me, I thought that when I was in any place on the earth I was remote from every other spot. But now I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.

Khalil Gibran#59

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About this quote

What does it mean?
The present moment contains all time and space simultaneously.
In plain terms
All time exists in the present now.
What can you take from it?
Live fully in the present.

Where it applies

  • meditation
  • daily life

Putting it to work

  • practice presence

Questions to consider

  • Where do you exist now?
  • How do you feel time?

Another view

It offers a philosophical view that conflicts with linear time experience.

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