Memories of the past and thoughts of the future are only actually happening now, in the present moment.
When things occurred in the past, it was a now, a present moment, when it happened.
In the future, it will be another now when whatever will happen will happen.
Does this mean there’s really only now?
My glimpses of this in yoga and meditation are that now, this consciousness when empty of thought, is blissful and infinite. It is as though “time” stands still and yet goes on forever and that there is seemingly only this moment.
Maybe you have felt this at a sunset or sunrise, at the birth of a baby, at the death of a loved one….
Yoga and meditation can help open the window to “time,” and thereby show us what we can be present to now!
The Every Day Yogi 