HERE & NOW

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” 

Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water

'“We walked in silence for a block or two, then he asked, “What time is it?”

“Oh, it's about...” Then I caught myself. “...about now.”

“And where are we?”

“Here.”

He said nothing else, and I felt like talking so I told him about my new feelings of freedom, my plans for the future.

“What time is it?' he asked.

“Now,” I sighed. “You don't have to keep...”

“Where are we?” he asked innocently.

“Here, but...”

“Understand this above all”, he interrupted. “You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you expect or hope for. There have never been past warriors, nor will there be future ones. The warrior is here, now. Your sorrow, your fear and anger, regret and guilt, your envy and plans and cravings live only in the past, or in the future.”

“Hold on, Socrates. I distinctly remember being angry in the present.”

“Not so,” he said. “What you mean is that you acted angry in a present moment. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. Its only power over you is to draw your attention out of the present.”'

SOURCE:
Way of the peaceful warrior, Dan Millman; HJ Kramer, New World Library, California 2000


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