Today I see that the only real point of power is in the present, which is to say that life cannot be lived backward or forward but only in the context of today. If I truly let myself have this moment and all that it contains, I will experience more in the way of enlightenment than if I become a brilliant student of the past or a psychic who can predict the future. It is in the present moment that all the waters meet and all the wisdom of the ages lies; it is the now that calls me to it with open arms. I work out my past, not because it is right or good or proper, but because it allows me to be in fuller possession of my present. By releasing and returning to me those parts of me that remain prisoner in my own psychic and emotional jail, I can have access to them now.

I allow myself this moment.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus