Life Happens Now
Most of us live under the mistaken assumption that life is a linear process moving through time and space. We never stop to examine our direct experience to discover whether or not that is actually true.
Allow yourself, in this moment, to check if you can actually experience any time except now. You, of course, can have memories of the past and anticipation of the future, but when do you actually experience this memory and anticipation? That’s right -- now.
If you have at least an intellectual understanding that now is all there is, you have also probably tried to get into this moment. In my experience this does not work either. Any efforting to be is a denial of that which you already are. Another way of saying this is: All efforting to be, is moving your perception away from what is already here now, instead of towards it. Indeed, my mentor Lester Levenson used to say, “Efforting is ego in action!”
Instead of trying to get into the now, right now, see if you can actually get out of the now. Can you? You may have thoughts about the past or the future. Didn’t even they merely happen now?
Let’s examine the now again. Notice how alive it is. How seeing, hearing and feeling are all happening on their own in this aliveness that you are now. Even the thoughts that you are now having gain their aliveness from the presence that you are. This moment is where all life happens. Even the thoughts and memories that you have are only alive now. In fact all phenomena gets life or energy from the aliveness that you are now.
Simply notice that now is all there is. Observe further that you don’t need to do anything to be the presence of awareness that is now. These observations will help your body/mind relax so that you can allow this aliveness to live life through you. | 
