A single moment of acting from conditioned impulse rather than present awareness can reshape your entire life. The speaker uses murder committed in the heat of the moment as an example: one instant can lead to a life sentence, making that fleeting moment permanent and irreversible.
People who murdered somebody, a lot of times they say it happened in the heat of the moment. It just happened. And that moment, which is not permanent, became permanent because they, instead of showing with presence the authentic self, They reacted according to some BS program that they had in their mind, and they took the trajectory of their life to a life sentence in jail, or worse, to a moment. Yes. One moment could change the trajectory of your life.
