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November 26, 2007 |Permalink |Comments (3)
Here. Be. Now.
I've spent the past couple of days trying to think of ideas and expressions around which young and old could find common cause. Strangely, the phrase...
Here. Be. Now.
Keeps coming back to me.
What does this mean to you?
Is there a "there" there?
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Here. Be. Now.
This is what the younger generation can't understand. It's usually There. Do. Whenever.....
Idealistically we should all live in the moment, but for those who are cramming every possible activity into every possible moment, sometimes living Now is a pipedream.
Could young and old find a common cause in "Sharing questions and seeking wisdom?"
HERE
BE
NOW
CAN
These are the words I'm thinking of right now. A beloved person told me about this incredible love story of a father and son.
Their love, to me, transcends age, their physical bodies and what society perceives as "limitation."
This story is a soulful reminder to me of what love is all about.
It also reminds me of a favorite quote:
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye".
~~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
The link below will take you to the Father/Son love story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRvsO8m_KI&feature=related
Here. Be. Now.
I am about to indulge myself (I can't help it). I keep a journal at my bedside where I write quotes from books that I read that somehow resonate with my life. Here are a couple of fairly recent ones:
1. "The Road" - Cormac McCarthy's best novel yet.
"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe . . . Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
This beautiful tale of love between a father and a son is a profound illustration of two souls - one young, one not so much, trying to make sense of their fate. The only thing real is HERE. BE. NOW. LOVE.
2. "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle
"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions."
Having been raised by my grandparents, I remember my childhood being that way - a lot of space filled with presence; mindfulness in the absence of time.