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CLXXVII explained
A brief meditation on the present moment as a constantly shifting boundary between past and future.
What happens
A brief meditation on the present moment as a constantly shifting boundary between past and future.
Key passages
“The present is the frontier between the desert of the past and the garden of the future. It is redrawn every moment.”
Now is the ever-changing border between a barren past and a promising future.
The chapter consists solely of this aphorism.