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Quaker Culture: Living Now

Author(s):
Thomas Kelly
Issue:
On Freedom (January 2022)
Department:
Quaker Culture

Between the relinquished past and the untrodden future stands this holy Now . . . In the Now we are at home at last. The fretful winds of time are stilled, the nostalgic longings of this heaven-born earth-traveler come to rest. For the one-dimensional ribbon of time has loosed its hold. It has by no means disappeared. We live within time, within the one-dimensional ribbon. But every time-now is found to be a continuance of an Eternal Now, and in the Eternal Now receives a new evaluation. We have not merely rediscovered time; we have found in this holy immediacy of the Now the root and source of time itself.

– Thomas Kelly (published posthumously, 1941)

immersion present moment

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