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Is this benign state a past from which we have lapsed or a future to which we are coming? The true answer is that it is neither. This state has always been existent within us, is so now, and always will be. It is forever with us simply because it is what we really are.

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 3 : The Overself's Presence > # 23