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“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” – Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n
A wordy sentence for the master of terse.\u00a0 Still.\u00a0 Not only is it true, it will be true each and every day.\u00a0 It could also be said that this hour is only one hour in all the hours to come, but what happens in it can influence all the other hours you’ll ever have.\u00a0 Be here now has its detractors, I know, those who want to talk about history and the future, yet with all their reluctance or eagerness, they must still leave the past behind and the future for the next moment, because we are never in any time other than now.\u00a0 Life comes to us in the present tense.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 And ends the same way.<\/p>\n
A presentation tomorrow morning at Groveland, Redefining the Sacred.\u00a0 I’ll post it here after I’ve given it.\u00a0 There’s a whole book, maybe several, in this general theme, a way of understanding the awesome, terrible, wonderful, magical, sacred nature of the lives we live and the world in which we live them, understanding them, that is, without needing an authority to tell us how, understand them within the experiences we have now, not ones we might have later, after death or in some altered state.<\/p>\n
You might think my flat-earth approach to religious mystery rules out an after-life or a supernatural possibility.\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 It just means I don’t have anything to say about it.\u00a0 If death includes a future, well, I’m there.\u00a0 If not, I won’t be.\u00a0 If there is a supernatural realm, a realm of the gods, I want to visit, but I’ve not seen the evidence for it.<\/p>\n
So, a way of understanding the sacred within our lived experience excites me, makes me want to tell others of the possibility.\u00a0 Which I will do tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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