Meister Eckhart
“There exists only the present instant…..a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.”
This statement was made over 700 years ago by Eckhart von Hochheim, commonly known as Meister Eckhart. He was a German Catholic theologian, lecturer, preacher, philosopher and mystic.
The above statement of fact can be boiled down to this — the only “real” is right now. To live in the past cannot be done. The past is just a memory. To anticipate a future is mere speculation. The future is only an array of potentialities. Both past and future are illusionary. To attempt to be in the past or the future is self-defeating. If, you really and truly desire to live a life of inner peace, joy and successful manifestations, the only permanent avenue is to be fully present in your current moment.
Right Now Is Literally….. Everything
What is “being fully present in your current moment?” It means no rehashing past grievances. It means not putting your life on hold until something that you anticipate happens in the future.
Stop and understand the full import of this statement – Now is all you really and truly ever have over the course of your entire life. What is. The Now moment is the whole deal, the total enchilada. Accept what is. Do whatever you need to do to manifest something or remediate some situation, but right now, what is, is.
Observe the Now moment, from outside your mind, while residing in the Kingdom of God within. Refrain from ranting and railing against what is. Make the choice to keep yourself from going over and over past injustices. Refrain from waiting until some expected event takes place before being fully conscious. Either option only serves to keep you trapped and imprisoned. The above statement of truth was put forth by Meister Eckhart over seven centuries ago. And as Jesus Christ said, “the truth will set you free.”
Slave Master Or Useful Tool
Your mind is either a relentless slave master or an incredibly useful tool. It can keep you imprisoned without mercy. Or it can help you to bring about wonderful manifestations all throughout your life.
There never was a time when your life was not Now. There will never be a time in your life other than right Now. Everything that happened in your past happened in the Now and everything that will ever happen in your future, will happen in the Now. The Kingdom of God within you operates only in the Now. Living in the Now is truth. The truth sets you free from being a prisoner of time and mind.
There is a place for time and mind. Time and mind allow you to meet the practical requirements of functioning in everyday society. Use your mind for a specific purpose, then put it away. Much of the relentless thinking that you do just repeats itself and is detrimental to you. When you cannot stop thinking of stuff, your mind is master and you are its slave. Going back to Meister Eckhart — ” time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.”
Maynard G. Krebs
There was a television show that I used to watch in the late fifties, early sixties called “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”. It was a situation comedy with an ensemble cast. The main character, Dobie Gillis, had a “beatnik” sidekick named Maynard G. Krebs. Maynard was played by Bob Denver.
Maynard G. Krebs was a stereotypical beatnik with a goatee and a bohemian appearance. One of his ongoing comical reactions was whenever he heard the word “work”. When he heard the word “work”, in any context, he would yelp “Work?!” and would jump in fear.
Maynard’s reaction to the thought of work is actually a common reaction in varying degrees to many people (including myself). To live fully in the Now will bring you a life of inner peace, joy and true fulfillment but you must actively work at it. Many are too comfortable with the old familiar way of linear living. People tend to shy away from things out of their comfort zone. That which you “know” is safer and more comfortable than the unknown. So, you shuffle along to the end of your time here in the world in an unconscious trance wondering about that vague, almost imperceptible feeling that something is missing. Something very important.
Commit yourself to the daily work. This is the work of your centered intention to do whatever you have to do to live your life in Now consciousness. Do this and sooner or later, the scales will begin to fall off your eyes. And my friend, you will see truth and the truth will set you free.
Why Are You Here?
You are here in the world to allow God, the I Am That I Am, to be brought into experience. Your very existence is to facilitate the overall Divine Purpose of the universe to come forth. When you unclench your mind and just let go of mental and emotional resistance to what is, right Now, you open the portal. This portal connects you to Divine Source, Ultimate Love and Intelligence. Through that portal comes inner guidance direct from the Kingdom of God within you.
True Salvation
True salvation is a state of freedom. Freedom from fear. Freedom from suffering. Freedom from needing, from grasping, from clinging. Freedom from waiting for this or that before experiencing power, peace and joy. True salvation is living fully in this moment, then the next, then the next, right up to your last breath.
Once you decide once and for all to do what you must do to live as a fully conscious soul in the Now only, you are on the road to true salvation. Power, peace, joy, fulfillment that you never felt before will be your due reward.
State Of Being
Circumstances do not matter. Only state of being matters.
Circumstances do not matter. Only state of being matters.
Circumstances do not matter. Only state of being matters.
Here And Now
Whenever you feel any type of negativity rising up in you, take immediate action. Take it as a signal telling you to live fully in your current Now.
The author, Aldous Huxley, wrote a novel near the end of his life titled “Island”. The book was about a South Pacific island called Pala. An English adventurer was shipwrecked on Pala. On this island was a very unique society of people. They treasured the concept of continuously staying in the present moment. What amazed the shipwrecked man was that the myna birds on the island seemed to be voicing the words “Attention. Here and Now. Attention. Here and Now”. He later learned that the islanders had taught the birds to sound those words as a continual reminder for them to live in the Now.
With Every Breath
With every breath you take, you possess an opportunity. You possess an opportunity to reside in peace, power and fulfillment in the Kingdom of God within you in every Now moment.
You have everything you ever wanted. You have nothing unless you reside in the Kingdom of God within.
Pain and suffering afflicts you. You are healed, where healing is most essential, when you reside in the Kingdom of God within.
Poverty and bills hound you like demons. You are rich beyond measure when you reside in the Kingdom of God within.
Be fully conscious of each Now moment. You will feel power and peace that you never felt before. You will feel right. Once you begin to live fully in the Now moment, you will never go back to the walk of the unconscious trance. Inner peace will flow through you as blood flows through your physical body. You will be free.
Dominus vobiscum.
Conceive. Believe. Receive.