So many speak of living in “The Eternal Moment of Now”. But do they understand what they are saying? Does anyone truly understand what it means to live “in the now”? Does anyone truly understand what The Eternal Moment of Now IS?

It is a fact that NOW is all we have. The Past is a memory. It no longer exists. We have no proof that it actually happened. We can record it in any way we want, but we cannot bring it to prove it existed, there is no way that we can bring it back to do over. The Future is a dream. It hasn’t happened yet. There is no guarantee that anything we plan for will actually happen. The future is subjective – dependent on our choices, and the choices of those around us.

The only guarantee we have is the moment we are experiencing right here and now, and yet how many people spend their entire lives living either in the past, dwelling on their memories, or in the future, planning for things that are yet to be? How many people actually take the time to live in the moment they are actually experiencing? And yet to live entirely in the eternal moment of NOW comes at a very steep price; the price is total detachment, for how can you be attached to anything when you have no proof of its ever having been yours to begin with– or no guarantee that it will be yours once this moment is past?

Some would have you think that this is a very selfish way to live – that living in the here and now with no attachments means that you don’t care about anyone or anything but yourself. And while it could be theoretically argued that this is true (because to truly live in the NOW requires that we continually choose to experience – from moment to moment - that which is most important to us – that which we wish to truly understand and experience) that does not necessarily equate with selfishness. If anything, it is selflessness.

To live – now – with no attachments is to accept that which you have chosen to experience – to enjoy it to its utmost; to experience it fully, AND TO HAVE NO EXPECTATIONS FROM IT. This can apply to anything from a job, to a spouse, to a child. They are here. Now. In your life. You have chosen to have them here. You have chosen to experience them AS THEY ARE. No attachments. No expectations. That is the price of now.