“free and new in each now, as if you did not possess, nor desire, nor indeed could do anything else”

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“this is why there is in him neither suffering nor succession, but only an equal eternity. In truth, this man is bereft of all wonder, and in him all things are present in their essence. Therefore he gets nothing new from things to come nor from any chance: he dwells in a single now which is in all time and unceasingly new.”