To be at once pilot and captain...[Henry James Thoreau]

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As if you could kill time

without injuring eternity. 

 

Why has man rooted himself 

 thus firmly in the earth,

but that he may rise 

 in the same proportion 

into the heavens above?

 

To stand on the meeting of two eternities, 

the past and the future, 

which is precisely the present moment.