I've read a book recently titled "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle, and from that book I have felt an awakening of sorts. I'm coming to the conclusion that living now, being present and concious of the moment, is the thing for me, to be free of worry and concern to be "up front" as Tom Wolfe discribes in " the electric kool-aid acid test", to "let the chips fall where they may" Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) would say, is the thing in that I shall find peace and connectedness with "being" (God). "In the stillnes (the moment/the now) I am there" says the scriptures, the story of Elijah waiting for God in the cave. There was wind, fire, earthquake and then stillness and in that stillness God spoke with a still small voice, God came when there was no distraction, no fear, no anxiety, when Elijah was concious and alert...."stillness is language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation"-unknown..."go to your cave and find your power animal" says the group councillor in "Fight Club", what is my "power animal"?, my "power animal" is my conciousness of now, of this moment...
"On the surface, the present moment is "what happens". Since what happens changes continuously, it seems that every day of your life consists of thousands of moments in which different things happen. Time is seen as the endless succesion of moments, some "good", some "bad". Yet, if you look more closely, that is to say, through your own immediate experience, you find that there are not moments at all, you discover that there is ever only this moment. Life is now. Your entire life unfolds in this constant now. Even past and future moments only exist when you remember them or anticipate them, and you do so by thinking about them in the only moment there is: this one"-Eckhart Tolle
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