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"Here is in life only one moment
and in eternity only one.
It is so brief that it is represented by
the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin
ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second.
The
moments that preceded it have been lived, are
forgotten and are without value;
the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value
except in the moment that each shall be lived." -
Mark Twain
To live in the moment is
commonly misunderstood as living
for the moment.
In the fable of the
grasshopper and the ant
living in the moment is given the connotation of living
irresponsibly.
But the fable of the ant and the grasshopper presents
only a dichotomy.
Each choice exists
at the farthest extreme of diametrically opposed poles.
In reality if we live like the ant we
die like the ant.
Our carcass is carted off to the rubbish heap
without a second thought.
To
live like the grasshopper is to sell the future for purchased happiness
now.
But purchased happiness
lasts only until the credit
card bills catch up.
Looked at from this point of view both the
grasshopper and the ant, having taken extreme positions, payed the inevitable
price of their extremity.
Is there a middle way? Naturally
!
Living in the moment is living in
Eternity.
Eternity is
not some time in the future.
Eternity is not even an infinite amount of
time.
Eternity has nothing to do with time.
Eternity is that dimension of -
- beyond all
thinking in symbols.
Although we must plan and prepare for the
future we must also be able to enjoy every day of our lives by allowing the
beauty,
mystery and
awe of living to break through
the bonds of preparing
for the future.
When our tasks no longer seem like tasks then our
hearts float free.
Simply give yourself to the task and immerse yourself
in the moment.
It makes no
difference to the engaged mind whether the task is
fiddling,
dancing, and
singing a song or
harvesting the grain and
carefully storing it away as long
as free will happily
choses the engagment.
Living in the moment is
accepting reality
Living in the
moment is enjoying reality
Living in the
moment is accepting
existence
Living in the
moment is enjoying existence
"We are making the insane
but rational choice to incinerate our common wealth
for financial profit.
Amazingly,
this end was foreseen thousands
of years ago by the originator of the
myth of King Midas, whose
touch turned everything to  .
Delighted at first with his gift,
soon he had turned all his food,
flowers, even
his loved ones into
cold, hard metal.
Just
like King Midas, we too are converting
natural beauty, human
relationships, the basis of our very survival, into
money.
Must
we, like King Midas, find ourselves
marooned in a cold, comfortless,
ugly, inhospitable world before we realize
we cannot eat our money?" -
Charles Eisenstein
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