The Eternal Now

We have always lived in the present, never in the past or the future. This seems counter intuitive when we imagine our life as a linear event, with us traveling from one end we call the beginning to the other we call the end. We have invested so much of our attention in time and space or sequence and distance we have come to believe this is what we are.  Let us attempt an exercise that may offer us a whiff of what it is like to live in the now we call the eternal moment.

Imagine our self suspended high above the ground, looking down upon all of the activity. Let us further imagine; so we may interact with the activity happening below, we must focus so intensely that we come to think of our self as part of it. This should not be difficult, we do this when we are reading a book or watching a good movie (or even a bad one). The more we focus on the activity beneath us, the more a part of it we feel we have become. In this exercise let us consider it is only our attention that has been integrated into the activity and not us. The ground below us is subject to time and space where the events pass beneath us with both sequence and distance; however, we are stationary above the ground.

The point of this exercise is to imagine the events moving by while we remain stationary in the eternal moment. In such an exercise we can see there is no past or future only activity passing by the eternal moment we occupy in consciousness. This does not free us from our activity in events passed or events that will come in to view. But instead it liberates us to know we are not these things that pass us by, we simply use them. We use creation to experience our divinity in the activity beneath our feet. This then is our destiny, through experience, to know ourselves to be ourselves, and one with that indescribable Loving Kindness we call God.