Presence

- Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is. - Today's the main event ! - - If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly.  It could not survive in your presence. - The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm.  Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness.  You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex. - Attention is the vital thing--and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind. - You are not "in the now"; you are the now. That is your essential identity--the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation. - To be free of thousands of years of conditioning does not require time or future. At this moment you can step out of the movement of thought. And allow quite simply an alert presence to be there. You're not here any longer as the carrier of your personal history, but you're here as an alive field of aware presence.            - Eckhart Tolle - Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.   - Krishnamurti