Neither time nor space exists for the man who knows the eternal.
Space
and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect and space is
divided for him into dimensions, time into past, present and future. He
looks behind him and sees his birth, his acquisitions, all that he has
rejected. That past is being continually modified by the future which
is ever being added to it. From the past man turns his eyes to the
future where death, the unknown, the darkness, the mystery, await him.
Fascinated
by these he can no longer detach himself from them. The mystery of the
future holds for him the fulfilment of all his desires, which the past
has denied to him, and in his dreams he flies to that brilliant
horizon where happiness must exist, where he must seek it.
Fatal error!
No
one will ever pierce the infinite mystery of the future - impenetrable
in its evanescent illusion - neither magician, prophet nor God! But on
the contrary it will be the mystery which will engulf man, which will
not let him escape, which will break the mainspring of his life.
Life
is not to be approached through the past, nor through the mirage of
the future. Life cannot be approached through intermediaries, nor
conquered for another.
That
discovery can only be made in the immediate present - by the
individual for himself and not for others - by the individual who has
become the eternal ``I''. That eternal ``I'' is created by the
perfection of the self - perfection in which all things are contained,
even human imperfections. Man, not yet having achieved that condition
of life in the present, lives in the past which he regrets, lives in
the future where he hopes, but never in the present which he ignores.
This is the case with all men.
Balanced
between the past and the future, the ``I'' is poised as a tiger ready
to spring, as an eagle ready to fly, as the bow at the moment of
releasing the arrow.
This moment of equilibrium, of high tension, is ``creation.'' It is the fullness of all life, it is immortality.
The wind of the desert sweeps away all trace of the traveller.
The sole imprint is the footstep of the present. The past, the future... sands blown by the wind.
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