'Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.' I would read every morning as I got out of bed. I was a real futurist. I couldn't stop planning. I became so addicted to dreaming. That I never did anything. And worst, I never truly lived. As I walked into nature with a friend, a couple of months back, she told me—'Be Present Balaram, Be Present.' I never fully understood that. What it truly meant? Until I dove deeper into the teachings of Dan Millman, Julia Cameron, Ekhart Tolle, and A.H. Almaas.
'There are no ordinary moments.' Dan Millman writes. 'In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.' Julia Cameron shares. 'All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.' Ekhart Tolle realises and, 'As we have seen, when you are trying to make something happen, you are not trusting the natural order; you don't trust that Essence itself will manifest in the way it is needed. The first point of departure from this trust is always a rejection of the now. To apply the perspective of basic trust, of true will, you must have the complete confidence that staying completely with what you are experiencing in this moment, will result in what needs to happen, without your having to think about a certain outcome. When the confidence is there, your awareness of exactly what is happening in you will allow you to see that your organism will do the best it can in the situation. Your mind, however, doesn't allow that complete Presence in the now; it thinks it knows what is best for you, but of course it knows only what has happened in the past, and can lead you only in ways conditioned by your history.' A.H. Almaas teaches.
