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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Now is not then. \u00a0Neither is it Then. \u00a0Not the Then of the past, not the then of the future. \u00a0Not the Was, the Will Be, nor the moment before nor the one that follows.<\/p>\n
The now is only Now, one and the same and no other experience but that. \u00a0Seeded by the multitude of previous Nows into its own existence; pass into the past and become Seed in the space of the passing of Now and of now.<\/p>\n
Having dealt with what the Now and now is and is not, let us address the joy that the Now contains.<\/p>\n
And its utter Sorrow.<\/p>\n
The Now is all that there is. \u00a0Each Now, each moment, is birthed into existence and as with any birth it is due all the joy of the universe. \u00a0Even within the adversity and the horror the child may be, it is still celebration. \u00a0It is still birth. \u00a0Every moment is a birth. \u00a0Every Now is the instant of becoming. \u00a0All Joy to the birth of NOW!!!<\/p>\n
The now is so very, very ephemeral. \u00a0We breathe and it has already passed. \u00a0It can stretch itself out in time with a familiarity of previous and future Nows, but it passes even as you notice it. \u00a0It spirals ever into death, into Was, into being No More and never to be again. \u00a0No individual Now shall ever come again.<\/p>\n
Each passing Now is a death, a loss, the finalness of its entire being, gone as the eye blinked and the bird flew by. \u00a0Weep in every now for the Now that shall be no more. \u00a0Endless sorrow, endless loss, that is the now.<\/p>\n
Weep in sorrow, leap in joy, every moment that is breathed. \u00a0Breathe into it.<\/p>\n
It is who we are. \u00a0We are now and only need to make the smallest of leaps to be of the Now.<\/p>\n
May you find it within your own soul.<\/p>\n
~The Abysmal Witch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Now is only now, here, precisely in this instant of being that your mind, soul, body are centered within. The Now is not then. \u00a0Neither is it Then. \u00a0Not the Then of the past, not the then of the future. \u00a0Not the Was, the Will Be, nor the moment before nor the one that … Continue reading What lies in the now.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}