What we know by memory, we know only at secondhand.
Tools such as these, as well as the tools of language and thought, are of real use to men only if they are awake – not lost in the dreamland of past and future, but in the closest touch with that point of experience where reality can alone be discovered: this moment.
At such times we are so aware of the moment that no attempt is made to compare its experience with other experiences.
There is no greater freedom than the freedom to be what you are now.