human kind

Cannot bear very much reality.

Time past and time future

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present...

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is...

Before the beginning and after the end.

And all is always now...

- T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton' (1935).