ETERNITY - THE PRESENT MOMENT

Eternity. The eternal present. The present is what it is. Ihe eternal NOW is what is. It has always been NOW and it will always be NOW.

The past can be experienced in the NOW only in memory - a picture or mental movie of a past experience. The past cannot affect us. Only our thoughts about the mental movie can affect us. The future can be experienced in the NOW only as a projection of the NOW.

The moment we are experiencing cannot be changed. We cannot change the present. The present is what it is. The moment we act upon the present, in the present, the present we choose to act upon has passed. We can influence our experiencing of the present, when the future becomes the present, only by adding to the present. We cannot negate the present. You cannot take away from the present. You can only do things in the present that will influence the direction the present goes. We can only attempt to persuade each moment of reality to lean in the direction of what we would like to be experiencing AS the present. We can't reverse the tides and flows of existential reality, we can only hope to influence the direction of the flow of what we will experience.

Since the present moment is unalterable reality, the best way to look at it is to unconditionally accept whatever the reality is, while you try and persuade the reality to be what you would like it to be. This is done be leaning the weight of our intention in the direction we wish our reality to go. This determined striving is to be done with the same kind of unconditional perseverance as the acceptance of the present moment is unconditionally accepted.

The unconditional acceptance of the present situation is easy once we appreciate the incredibleness of the awareness of being aware. The appreciation of the awareness of being aware is done, and can only be done, in the present. I cannot stress this appreciation enough. If you were not aware of being aware, then nothing else would matter. Since you are aware of being aware, everything else you experience in the flow of life is like icing on the cake of life.

The Now, which is all there is, is Eternity. The Eternal NOW. It is forever and ever.