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A Thought for Today
Given a chance the spirit will always
shine.

TO BEGIN WITH
Moment-to-Moment is a book that was largely written in Holland in the
winter of 1973. It went through two revisions and was first published in
1953 by Cheval-Stanyan in two separate editions. Meanwhile a
substantially different edition of the book was published in Great
Britain by W.H. Allen. Two years later I revised it yet again and it was
republished by Simon Schuster where it became an immediate best seller.
All these years later I still tinker with the contents trying to clarify
it’s diary-like entries even further.
HOTEL DE L'EUROPE, WINTER: EARLY EVENING
Cold. The window open, curtains spread as far apart as they will go.
Outside, the sky dominates everything. Because I haven’t closed the
window yet, my bed is now so full of moon there’s almost no room left in
it for me. What a bed this is. What a wide, soft Dutch bed this old
hotel has given me this time to lie in by myself.
In a city like Amsterdam if you sleep alone, you do so by choice. But
after all the nights, good, bad, indifferent, not different I’d rather
stay here empty inside / outside than bed down just to bed down. I’ve
been more alone when someone wrong was here than I’ve been when no one
came. Still... Never mind, if I don’t get up to close the window now
there will be no sleep at all.
I will not chase the shadows any more. I’ll draw the curtains tight and
sleep. I’ll work, read, go to sleep.
- from "Moment to Moment," 1973,1975

“Moment To Moment” British Edition published by W. H. Allen
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