Being Present

Being Present

The past is captivating. It literally has the power to capture us and hold us hostage in a time which has already gone. Our minds become trapped in ideas, moments, memories that have already passed...or have never even existed. The same is true for the future, for there is no reality in that which has not yet had a chance to be created. This is the power of our minds. Wildly creative and consistently authoring stories which our egos believe to be true at their core. Again, it is a mythological, fragmented reality which we are perceiving. 

All thoughts of the past and future are illusions, stories which we have created and to which we give form and substance. None of this can bring us to the light of the present moment. Yet making an effort in itself is futile, for it is bringing us further from the real experience of what is. How can we truly experience something as it is if we are constantly using our minds to think about it, and then to judge it?

How do we liberate ourselves from these illusions, bringing our attention to the present moment and know that NOW is all that we have? Perhaps we can begin to experience things as they are, without love or hate, just by tasting, touching, smelling, hearing, seeing, and feeling everything as it is, just for a moment. That moment will not last, but it will be real. As real as the next moment and the next. Not one of them will be separate, for life is one continuous action of moments strung together...

"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever..." - Alan Watts

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