Here and Now

Be Present

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.  This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be.  The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.  Both are illusions.

“But without a sense of time, how would we function in this world?  There would be no goals to strive toward anymore.  I wouldn’t even know who I am, because my past makes me who I am today.  I think time is something very precious, and we need to learn to use it wisely rather than waste it.”

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.  What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now.  That is precious indeed.  The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Why is it the most precious thing?  Firstly, because it is the only thing.  It’s all there is.  The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.  Life is now.  There was never a time when your life was not now,  nor will there ever be.  Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind.  It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

-The Power of Now, Eckhart Toll

Show Me Love

Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined a night like this.

What started as a beach day in Hawaii turned into a night of dance and love to music by Diplo.

There’s no better feeling than showing people a helluva good time and being appreciated for it.

I ain’t wasting no more of my heart on people who take it for granted.

Fuck that.

I can only give so much.
If you want to get at me, you’ve got to show me love.