A simple way to test the quote is to pause and try to locate yesterday. You can retrieve an image or a sentence about it, perhaps feel a twinge of regret or warmth—but all of that is happening in this moment. Then try to locate next week: you’ll find scenarios, not facts, and they also occur in the present as thoughts.
From there, the insight becomes less metaphysical and more experiential: life is continuously “now-ing.” The mind can time-travel in representation, yet the theater where it performs is always the current moment. [...]