You live only once, and that once is NOW. All your energies, all your qualities, all your faculties, are centered upon the present moment. It is the vital point, the single hot and living tip through which you can burn your whole life record of constructive activity into the stubborn fabric of Mankind. The Past is gone, you Except in mortal existence there is no Past and Future. Divisions of Time vanish outside of limited and divided Minds. Eternity knows no such division; it includes both Past and Future and is itself simply an eternal and ever present NOW. But the human Mind, inside the self-erected mental walls which made it human, cannot comprehend Eternity and has enslaved itself to the very limitations
cannot alter it; the Future is to come, you cannot touch it. But the Present is HERE, and you can score strong and deep in it.
which it fashioned. It possesses only the moment to tie to its lost heritage, and only through the proper appreciation and use of that moment can it win back something of what it has lost.
— Baron Eugene Fersen
