08-10-2017, 01:14 PM
(08-10-2017, 01:00 PM)Tribulation Wrote: The trick is to avoid the ugly and the painful. To seek out the beauty and experience the pleasures of just living.
I agree...
I think the point of life is to 'live in the now'...
You hear it all the time, but it really is true.
When we're 'in the now', we aren't existing in the past and we aren't dwelling in the future.
It's a form of time travel. When you dwell in the past, you are defined by those experiences. Therefore, those parameters are what will dictate your life experiences going forward.
Likewise, if you're living just thinking about the future, and particularly, WORRYING about it... you are not going to be taking beneficial steps in the now that pave the way to the kind of future you wanna be in. A future paved out of fear and worry is not a comfortable place.
If you're moving in the now, looking to the future with a positive attitude, feeling joy, pursuing joy... you will be paving the way to a future that includes those feelings and thought processes.
But the most powerful thing is NOW. The past, the future... they don't ACTUALLY exist. They aren't applicable to the moment.
So each step we take, everything we do, whatever we're moving toward...
That is where the power is.
The power is NOW.
That's why everything within the construct of society seeks to distract us from the moment.
