Take your time; there is no other time. Even when everything seems to accelerate beyond control – especially then – take your time.
Time does not exist as an objective thing; it depends completely on your perception and your connection with yourself. If you are present, in touch with how you experience reality and open to what you are experiencing, then you are the master of time, not its slave.
How do we do that? The method is simple: it has a few basic steps that require no particular skills, talents or techniques. It is called “practicing presence”.
I imagine that you, like me, want to live life and not just survive. I assume that you too want to experience life’s fullness and richness. I know that you too have asked yourself at least once, “Is this all there is to life?” There is an answer to that: presence.
It is the answer to all questions because it is the only quality that allows you to find your answers and those are the only answers that will satisfy your thirst and your longing.
Very often, it seems very difficult to take time for yourself, to find, even conceive, the possibility that you can live according to your rhythm. At times, nearly impossible. And yes, it’s not easy because pretty much everything in the world as we know it is there to distract us.
What is easy is getting lost in other people, in objects, in projects, in worrying, in acquiring and running after… and yet if we can just stop for a second and ask ourselves these questions: Who is getting lost? Who is running? Who is reading right now?
Just by asking this WHO, we are already a little less lost, a little less on the run, a little more present. And, then the next question is, present to who? To the only one that can be aware of the running and the getting lost and the reading and the asking… YOU!
You are the miracle, the fundamental awareness that recognizes each event, moment, potential, tendency, relation, emotion, sensation, and thought that is this life you want to live fully.
So the first step is: ask the question and take the time to feel the presence of the experiencer. You will be getting in touch, little by little, with what I call the Authentic Self: the unique manifestation that you are.
The second step is: remember your Self. Once you recognize that you exist at the very center of your every moment, then just take the time to stop in that moment and remember: I am the experiencer.
The third step is: remember when you forget. Embrace your forgetting. There is no need for guilt, no need for self judgment, just notice, “Oh, I forgot!” And you will be instantaneously back and connected.
This is a practice, my friend. Something that will take time and intention and commitment, but the passion that you will find, the joy in being present, the delight for the richness of any experience, and the gratefulness….
Grazie… di cuore…
Mi tocca affrontare la mia atavica pigrizia e imparare meglio l’inglese (oppure google translate 🙂 ). Ciao Avikal un abbraccio.
Grazie!
Gratitude brother <3
love you bro
Thank you
Grazie dal cuore… ho appena intrapreso il mio cammino e già sono consapevole dell’ immenso privilegio nel averti al mio fianco…
Grazie per il tuo sostegno e la tua preziosissima guida!
Il tuo amore arriva come luce che fa chiarezza e sostiene nei momenti più bui.
Thank you?
Grazie
Verena
Praticing presence changend my life ? I remember ?
Un abbraccio
Grazie Avikal, per il tuo sostegno ed il tuo amore!
Thank you very much master!!!
Thank you, a simple and mighty reminder…
Grazie, maestro, per avermi indicato tante volte la via.
yes to the master
Amore e verità … e quando le sento tutto è leggero. Grazie!!!
Grazie Avikal! Le tue condivisioni sono davvero preziose e per me sono state nel tempo tra le fonti principali di ispirazione. Arriva chiaramente dalle tue parole il modo diretto ed essenziale di trasmettere il tuo insegnamento.
Beautifully written and indeed a good read. But life on this earth doesn’t make sense to me anymore, maybe in heaven I’ll find peace. I plan to end my life on my birthday n I hope n pray God will accept me as I have heard those who end their lives on purpose will end in hell which I often doubt. Good people shouldn’t get punished no matter how they die.
dear flo, i don’t know you and i respect whatever you feel is your way…i also know out of my own experience that life has not an intrinsic meaning but that we give to it moment to moment as we create ourselves and reality…you are god and you are creating hell or heaven every moment here/now…perhaps you can take this challenge and responsibility and create a different reality for yoursel
f that is not suffering…love, avikal
Ancora grazie
Grazie Avikal la tua esperienza è un grande sostegno per me. A presto.
Grazie per il tuo prezioso sostegno e l’enorme contributo, grazie
Grazie Avikal per tutta la tua Passione e Con-passione .
Grazie !!
Beautiful Avi, simple and direct as the breath, no need for complexity, the heart beats by itself. You rock:)
great to hear from you my dear, love
grazie per il buongiorno
Grazie Avikal, ancora e ancora
Arriva. Grazie
Yes , so true. The gift of life is in the present; be grateful for it NOW!
yes
such a precision. thank you so much.
These are huge; deep thought and and thank you:)