When I was alive, I believed – as you do – that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (..) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that – then any time at all will be the right time for you. Peter S. Beagle
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Remember that time is not at all like what you think it is. It has no shape or size, no weight or temperature. You are accustomed to regarding it as something solid, something 'there'. But there is no 'there' for time.

There is only the moment - the eternal now. You are never in time, but always in the eternal moment, which is always now. Life isn't about what happens to you.

Life is about what you do with what happens to you. Time passes, life does not. The past is gone, the future has not yet come.

Life is now, this moment. Being alive means being awake now, being fully alive in this very moment, being completely present in life as it unfolds now before you�

Source: The Last Unicorn

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