Make the Present Moment Home
"Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.
If you no longer want to create pain for yourself and others, if you no longer want to add to the residue of past pain that still lives on in you, then don't create any more time, or at least no more than is necessary to deal with the practical aspects of your life.
How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.
Always say "yes" to the present moment.
What can be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What can be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now?
Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life - and see how life starts working for you rather than against you."
~Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Why does it seem so challenging to stay present?
This quote gives us the answe: the mind needs time to feel in control. It feeds on past and future. This is why you're always thinking yourself out of the present moment.
No need to fight your thoughts. No need to judge yourself. Just gently notice when the mind is spinning stories about what was, or what might be... Then lovingly return to this breath, this sound, this moment.
You’re not doing it wrong if your mind pulls you away. The shift is in noticing, again and again, that this eternal moment is all that is real.
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