[Personal Note: In this very brief clip Alan Watts talk about how to best overcome a drinking problem, but I think his short message contains some timeless wisdom about how to best establish a relationship with your highest ideal. It seems to me that those who wish to improve themselves often burden their efforts by imagining everything that is at stake; they begin to imagine how their entire lives stand to be improved by their actions in the present moment.
They begin to think about every obstacle that stands between them and success in the present moment, the near future, the medium term future, the long term future—and some even start to agonise over how their past decisions led them to an undesired present. Why burden yourself this way? Why bear more than is necessary?
As Watts often reminds us, there is only one moment in your life that you’ll ever have to truly grapple with: this one, the one you’re currently in. Make the best possible decision and take the best course of action in the present moment, and say nothing about the next. No one is asking you to live your entire life right now.
This, of course, isn’t an invitation to completely disregard the future and to live recklessly in the present. It’s much more subtle than that. It’s more of an invitation to listen to the guiding voice within you that intuitively understands the best course of action. It’s an invitation to listen to that voice within you that has a kind of instinctive omniscience regarding your entire being.
Learning to listen to this voice is essentially an exercise in trust, but, if done correctly, diligently, and consistently, it is one that unfolds much more elegantly, beautifully, and productively than if you had tried to improve EVERYTHING about your life right NOW.]
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