our breathing which happens right now,we cannot breath later,we cannot breath in the past. Breath happens now, otherwise we are death. You can think that when we have this insight into
our trueself, when we look for our face before our parents were born... (to paraprase a zen koan), we have a glimpse of a non dualistic mode, which is stillness, which is now.
This can be described, however it might make nonsense at all, it is better to check by yourself... sit in meditation and do it. (then let me know what happened ^^ )