Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

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We were talking briefly about cocaine...yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.