Living in the moment

"Life is like a camera, focus on what is important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't work out, take another shot."

Our experience of the present moment is always coloured by some kind of emotion, bliss, jealousy, desire, ignorance, poverty, aggression or hatred. Living in the moment is not always easy. It requires awareness of yourself moment by moment. It requires you don't judge what you become aware of. Just seeing is enough with judging it to be to good or bad. Seeing is freeing. It frees your energy so you can be creative and think clearly. The energy you would otherwise be using to repress your emotions, to keep them from coming up to the surface, to rationalize them away. It takes courage to love yourself, no matter what comes up in the moment. To acknowledge you are but human with strengths and weaknesses, to be humbled by that knowledge. Only then can you start to have real compassion for other people you start to perceive as human, not stupid, or the many other words you use to describe their weaknesses.

Living in the moment is work at first but then it becomes easy and you start to realize how powerful it is, all you need to do is let go and let be.