ALL YOU EVER HAVE

All you ever have is Now, one breath, one heartbeat at a time.

There is not past. “Bring out the past and show it to me,” the Buddha said.  All there is, is memory.

There is no future. “Bring out the future and show it to me,” the Buddha said.  All there is, is anticipation, planning, expectation.

The present moment is all there is.  Remembering the past and planning for the future are done now, in the present.

“All we have is now,” Marcus Aurelius put it.

In his book The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle writes, "Realize deeply that the present moment is all that you ever have.  Make the Now the primary focus of your life." 

Alan Watts said, “There’s no place to be but here and now. There’s no way to be anywhere else.” Watts added, “Interestingly, time is moving, yet there is only now.”