It takes time for an acorn to ...

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.