We do not need to think in order to know the right thing to do in the moment for ourselves, or for others! In fact, quite the opposite is true. The amazing possibilities that appear with each present moment are literally beyond thought. After all, the best moments in our lives -- those priceless times when we feel most alive -- unfold without our taking a single thought about them. That unfor...
The power in the presence of God is immeasurable, because nothing exists apart from it.
Since the active principle of the present moment ceaselessly refreshes itself -- so that all is ever-renewed in the now -- there exists nothing in Reality with the power to hold someone captive... anymore than standing in a fountain of water constitutes becoming a prisoner of its flow.
The present moment, what we call “Now” is a Presence; (it is) the revelation of what is being born -- living and dying -- in an eternal act of Creation...
All of our imagined hopes and plans for the promising pleasures of "tomorrow" are crafted by the parts of us determined to keep us from seeing what we're being given to see about ourselves in each and every present moment.
Presence, the actual present moment, is not the outcome of the past, or a door to some imagined future; it is the culmination of Time. Real life is not a result... anymore than the ocean is the outcome of its waves.
Before you can learn how to change your destiny, you must first realize that secret place within yourself where your own future is created. You must consciously enter that place of power where all of your life-choices are made for you. It's called the present moment: The now. And this now is the seed of all that comes later. The following paragraph helps us see into this great mystery. It...
Nothing in the universe can make us relive some painful moment as long as we choose to live from the higher understanding that no old dark thought has the power to define us, let alone drag us into its fearful world. Without our unconscious consent the past -- and all that may have punished us once upon a time -- is powerless in the present moment.