Being in the present with total awareness allows us to observe it so that we can watch its unfolding as if we were watching the sun rise or set. We don’t tell the sun how to do what it knows to do so brilliantly, we simply watch, and we experience what we’re seeing with acceptance

You deserve to feel whatever you want to about an experience you’ve endured from your past. But by replacing what you tell yourself about what happened to you means that you don’t have to keep reliving the unpleasantness or pain over and over again in your mind.

Remember, an experience from the past has alreadybeen lived, and even though you can relive it in your mind,physically you can’t because you are no longer in the past,or in the experience you once had. You experienced it, andnow it’s over.

This present moment is the moment that matters the most because you are in it, and, as I said, if you value being alive, then you value the moment you are most alive in, which is right now.

A moment gives us a brief period to be fully present, and be our most authentic self, before it completely vanishes like magic. Now you see it, now you don’t.

Now is the most real moment there is. I live in the moment of now.:

A magical moment reminds us of how magical life canbe, but it doesn’t mean its job is to entertain us, or inebriateus, or exalt us, or make us feel special all of the time. That’sputting the burden onto something outside of ourselves.