Here-and-Now

Literature|
August 27th, 2008 by bornshouter

Despite being a chancer, rogue and down-right charlatan Dr Tamkin is certainly a wise man, I think most of us could benefit from living in the here-and-now rather than on the crest of the what-if wave…

You should try some of my here-and-now mental exercises. It stops you from thinking so much about the future and the past and cuts down confusion…

Nature only knows one thing, and that’s the present. Present, present, eternal present, like a big, huge, giant wave - colossal, bright and beautiful, full of life and death, climbing into the sky, standing in the seas. You must go along with the actual, the Here-and-Now, the glory.

Dr Tamkin in ‘Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)‘ by Saul Below.

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