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(11:42.) Now Ruburt has been concentrating upon the symptoms, imagining this or that, often not responding to the moment as it is, but to imagined future events and moments filled with threat or difficulty. [...]
What I said to you about your moment with the evening, my remarks about responding to the present moment—these all involve ways of dealing with basic attitudes in your individual and joint behavior. [...]
Now: you spoke earlier this evening of moments in boyhood when you simply observed and appreciated the natural world. [...]
[...] Because of the nature of the material, I thought I might be shown how to enter a probable moment from the present one. [...] I was really disappointed, but shook my consciousness to set it back to daily things, and with only a moment of reorientation attended to my guests.
Any one moment in physical time then is a warp, opening into these other dimensions of actuality, and any one moment can be used as a passageway or bridge. [...]
Attention can be shifted from any physical moment to any probable moment by a sideways parallel imaginative thrust — a sideling off of —
Now the walls within the rooms could be compared to your physical time, each wall a moment as you think of it. But each moment can be used as a threshold into experiences that have no time, and I explained this to you, though you do not remember.
(Pause.) Now give me a moment. [...]
[...] That you form the universe as you know it en masse and individually from the focal point of this moment, from the focus of this moment that all of your selves exist now and are not done and finished anymore than you are done and finished. [...] It seems to you that there is no other existence for you personally but this room and this time and this moment and yet, of course, you create it. [...]
Dictation: In your terms a photograph freezes motions, frames the moment — or all of the moment that you can physically perceive.
Give us a moment … Some inventors, writers, scientists, artists, who are used to dealing with creative material directly, are quite aware of the fact that many of their productive ideas came from the dream condition. [...] In waking life there are fluctuations in your consciousness, periods when you are more or less alert, in your terms, when your attention wanders from issues at hand; or when, instead, you are certainly brilliantly focused in the moment. [...]
[...] But the greater subjective reality of that moment does not appear physically in such a photograph. [...]
[...] The past contains for each of you some moments of joy, strength, creativity and splendor, as well as episodes of unhappiness, despair perhaps, turmoil and cruelty. [...]
For an exercise, sit with your eyes wide open, looking about you, and realize that this moment represents the point of your power, through which you can affect both past and future events.
In your terms — the phrase is necessary — the moment point,5 the present, is the point of interaction between all existences and reality. All probabilities flow through it, though one of your moment points may be experienced as centuries, or as a breath, in other probable realities of which you are a part.
— and Ruburt is correct, so give us a moment …
[...] The body is at any given moment, however, a mass conglomeration of energy formed from that rich bank of probable activity. [...]
Today is tomorrow, and present, past,
Nothing exists and everything will last.
There is no beginning, there was no end,
No depth to fall, no height to ascend.
There is only this moment, this flicker of light,
That illuminates nothing, but oh! so bright!
For we are the spark that flutters in space,
Consuming an eternity of a moment’s grace,
For today is tomorrow, and present, past.
Nothing exists, and everything will last.
[...] That portion of the self is the portion you recognize as your usual conscious self, alive within the scheme of seasons, aware within the designs of time, caught transfixed in moments of brilliant awareness, with civilizations that seem to come and go. That is the self that is alert in the dear preciseness of the moments, whose physical senses are bound to light and darkness, sound and touch. [...]
[...] Earthly creatures must be able to react in a moment, yet the inner mechanisms that made such reactions possible were based upon calculations that could not be consciously kept in mind. [...]
(Pause at 9:42.) Give us a moment…. [...]