The present is an atom of time between the past and the future. It is so infinitely brief in duration that it seems to many of us to not exist at all. The present is simply the interface between the two extensions of time that do exist in our minds, the past and the future. The present is just how the future with all of its fears becomes the past with all of its feelings of guilt. In fact, for those who believe in the reality of the past and the future, the present is a fiction that we use to convert fear into guilt through the process that is known as time. See p. 239, Being and the End of History.
For those who believe in the present, the past and the future are just two fictions that we use to shelter ourselves from the guiltlessness of now.
"As long as the mind spawns its own fears of time, it is incapable of understanding that which is timeless."
J. Krishnamurti
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