"Time is one of the strongest, most intransigent and sequential gods. There is no negotiating with it.
Either you do it or you don't do it, you live or you don't live, and if you live you suffer the consequences. Egoic limitations: pride, seduction, ambition... and the overwhelming physical decay.
Within this, the most significant thing is the laborious (permitted) day-to-day review of everything that has been accomplished and what is to come. The present uniting the ends of the past and the future, making everything one, transforming the opposites into a single, infinite spiral line..."