there are ways of  experiencing life as
sacred
without believing anything
and certainly without believing anything on
insufficient evidence
there are ways to
really live in the present moment
what's the alternative?
it is always now
however much you may feel you need to plan for the future
future
to anticipate it, to mitigate risks
the reality of your life is now
now this may sound trite
but it's the truth
our conscious awareness of the present
moment is in some relevant sense already a
memory
but as a matter of
conscious experience
the reality of your life
is always now
and i think this is a liberating truth
about the nature of the human mind in
fact i think there's probably nothing more important
to understand about your mind than that
if you want to be happy in this world
the past is a memory
it's a thought
arising in the present
the future is merely anticipated it is another thought
what we truly have
is this moment... and this.
and and we spent most of our lives
forgetting this truth
repudiating it, fleeing it, overlooking it
and the horror
is that we succeed
we manage to never really connect with
the present moment and find fulfillment
there because we are 
continually hoping to become happy in the future
and the future never arrives
but even when we think we're in the
present moment
we are in very subtle ways always
looking over its shoulder
anticipating what's coming next
we are always solving a problem
and it's possible to simply drop your
problem
if only for a moment
and enjoy whatever is true of your
life in the present
