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Today's
Quotation:
The present moment is never
intolerable. It
is always what is coming
in five minutes or five days that
makes people despair. The
Law of Life is
to live in the present, and this applies to
both time and place. Keep
your
attention to the present moment, and in the place where
your body is now.
Emmet Fox
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Today's
Meditation:
As
I live more and more, I'm slowly learning how to live in the
present moment. I'm learning what it means to truly be
in the right here, right now, rather than thinking about the
past or wondering about the future. In my life, this
is one of the most important things that I've ever learned,
for my days are much fuller and much richer as I learn to see,
to notice, to feel, and to appreciate all that's here in
this world with me in the now.
This
is one of those concepts that I used to wonder what people
meant when they talked about it. After all, I am alive
right now, so of course I'm living in the moment. But
even though my body's here, where is my mind? Where is
my attention? What am I focused on? And if I'm
focused on something other than right now, how can I take
advantage of all the gifts and possibilities that the right
now is offering me? My body is here, and if I can keep
my attention here, also, I can get much more out of the
present moment. Not only that, but I can give much
more to the present moment, also.
I
had a friend once who almost always talked about the past,
mostly about her high school years. At times it was
very difficult to be with her because it seemed that she was
actually living in the past, and no matter what we might be
talking about in our current lives, the conversation always
would turn to her past. It got to be kind of sad, for
I could see that people started to avoid being with her--
she
chose to focus on parts of her life that she knew but no one
else was familiar with, and no one was really interested in
constantly reliving her past with her.
Right
now. What powerful words those can be if we recognize
them for what they are: truly the only time we have
for sure, and every single right now is the most important
moment of our lives, for it's the only moment in which we
can act and make choices that will affect our future right
nows.
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