There is the real present but there is also the illusory present. To live in the past is to die, to live in the future is to dream, but to live in the real present is to be awake, enlightened.[i]
He is a philosopher who realizes to the full, and continually feels, the presence of divinity not only within himself but also within the world.[ii]
He will look at experience from a new centre. He will see all things and creatures not only as they are on earth but also as they are "in heaven."[iii]
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[i] — Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4: Time, Space, Causality > # 142
[ii] — Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 5: The Philosopher > # 30
[iii] — Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 5: The Philosopher > # 114
............ Paul Brunton
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