For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones — for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

 

north korea. stuck in time.

write down the list, get on top of the booking of the vacations, plan for the future and plan it now. it will allow you to forget about today. hurry up, the time is going away. the boat is leaving. and the 401k, get that in order, and where you will spend it. where you will spend eternity. forget about the now, that is gone. it went away when the sun left the sky, when the head hit the pillow. there is no more money to be made today, no more nuts to hide or traps to set.

sit down, turn on the tv or log onto the news, you deserve it.

the world can be falling apart but as long as there is something good on tv we will never know the difference. the same thing happened in rome when it was falling apart, the orgies so wild, the news so outrageous from the outlandish politicians that the people of the empire hardly noticed when the walls started to fall apart and the water stopped flowing. the music ended. they died, their entire society crumbled and the dynasty ended. it happens.