(...) There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. (...) What makes the present so different? Obviously, my presence. I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what is with me now shares in my reality. (Nisargadatta Maharaj)

(...) There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. (...) What makes the present so different? Obviously, my presence. I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what is with me now shares in my reality.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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