It is the clinging to the false that makes

the true so difficult to see. Once you

understand that the false needs time and

what needs time is false, you are nearer

the Reality, which is timeless, ever in thenow.

Eternity in time is mere repetitiveness,

like the movement of a clock. It flows from

the past into the future endlessly, as empty

perpetuity. Reality is what makes the present

so vital, so different from the past and future,

which are merely mental. If you need time to

achieve something, it must be false. The realis always with you; you need not wait to be

what you are. Only you must not allow your

mind to go out of yourself in search. When you

want something, ask yourself: do I really needit? and if the answer is not, then just drop it.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That-

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, The Acorn Press, 1973