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to experience, at the same time, all that has been and all that will be, because this moment contains both. It contains the whole past, because where will the past go? -- it goes on and on entering into the present moment. And it contains the whole future, because from where will the future come? -- it will grow from this moment, from the next moment and the next moment and from the whole eternity.
The present moment is a seed which has all the trees of the past... generations and generations of trees. This seed has not come from nowhere, it has come from a tree. That tree had come from another seed, that seed had come from another tree. If you go backwards, the seed will take you to the very beginnings -- if there were any beginnings.
It has been forever here.
And this seed also contains the future trees. From this seed will grow a new tree, and from that tree will grow thousands of seeds and thousands of trees. A single seed can make the whole earth green... or, it can even be said that it can make the whole universe green. So much is contained in a small seed.
This present moment is a seed of time.
It is invisible. That's why we don't know what it contains.
It contains the whole past; it contains the whole future. That's why I insist: Don't think of the past, don't think of the future. Just remain in the present moment, and the whole past is yours and the whole future is yours.
Because of this paradox you feel in my presence as if you are seeing me for the first time; and when you saw me for the first time, years before, you had the feeling as if you had always known me. But it is an extension of the same paradox; it is not different.
We are always seeing each other for the first time, and we have known each other forever -- because change is the only unchanging reality in existence... and particularly with a man like me, who does not live logically, who has no respect for any logic, who never bothers about whether this statement will contradict some other statement. In fact, I don't remember which statements I have made before, so it is very easy for me: each statement is fresh, and I don't compare it.
So
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