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A moment to die, a moment to live. Like a genie who came out of a bottle, we are bestowed with time and freedom to live that time the way we like. That freedom or condition is created by life and time together, inseparably. Vital and free, time is ours. Every moment entails excitement, anticipation, a new beginning. There is an imaginary place called, "Kingdom of Doing", where the act of doing is celebrated thus, it belongs to the kingdom. Our world is the same as that kingdom because the best acts of doing and being are those that are born out of love and enthusiasm - a celebration of doing and being. Behind every moment is a non-moment. With every celebration, there is an accompanying stillness.

There is immeasurable potentials and endless possibilities available to us at any given moment. A moment could last a lifetime. One's dream could take a lifetime to achieve, yet that dream exists in one's mind as a moment in time. So, in a way, a lifetime can be contained in a single moment. How are we to judge what someone's dream is? How are we to judge what a moment really is for someone, or, ask why someone is doing so and so? Time will tell. Ideally, every decision is deliberate and conscious. We can choose an ending or a definite conclusion, but that will only be valid in the Now. The now, is our territory - you might say - we are inhabitants of the present. We can only live in the moment - a moment at a time, one possibility - one potential at a time. Man created time because we think and do things in a linear and sequential manner. Civilization evolved and progressed according to time. Our physicality, our need to eat and survive is always our utmost priority, everything else is secondary. Out of the most basic of truths comes the most complex. Living in the moment is a landscape filled with possibilities and potentials.

Conversely, in every single moment we are physically present having the full use of all our senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch and so on. Together with our senses, we have our physical attributes such as our height, facial features and so on. Our emotional disposition or temperament is an integral part of our physical make-up. But it doesn't end there, our personal space and personal reality extend in all directions, and these directions transcend space and time. Don't you often have feelings and realizations of a greater experience of space and time? However simple living in this moment may seem, everything here and

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