Same Demon, New Mask

Steven Barnes
7 min readApr 27, 2021

A student asked a fascinating question:

“How do you plan, but simultaneously stay in the present moment? If all the life there is is in the present, all the power and juice…how do we plan.”

Well… you can be fully engaged in a moment of planning. Totally THERE. This connects with the sense that there is only one moment, that lasts forever. And then another moment, that lasts forever.

And that in once sense they are different and in another sense, totally the same. And that you need to resolve THAT duality, as well.

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.