The hardest ground to plow was living fully without worry, not in the past gone on or future yet to come—but in the present hardpan now.
~ J. Drew Lanham in SPARROW ENVY
To open to the sense, to become really conscious, you have to drop out of the future and the past and remain for a time in what T. S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world" — the present. The only true reality is the present.