Yes,
you
are
in
My
Presence,
for
there
is
nothing
else
but
right
now.
Memory
and
foretelling
are
but
little
next
to
right
now.
They
are
thoughts
without
substance.
They
are
thoughts
that
have
wandered
off.
The
illusive
present
is
more
like
the
place
with
no
thought.
It
is
called
living,
being
alive,
spontaneous,
right
here,
attuned,
unaware
awareness
as
it
were,
no
flashback,
no
thinking
ahead
nor
thinking
back.
It
is
sort
of
suspended
animation.
It
is
more
like
being
in
the
gap,
like
the
rich
space
between
two
thoughts,
two
words,
two
sentences,
two
worlds.
The
expression
"in
the
moment"
does
not
quite
say
it,
for
there
is
no
moment.
There
is
the
stream
of
life
you
are
in,
the
state
of
life
you
are
immortalized
in,
beloveds.
You
are
not
on
the
cusp
but
in,
not
out.
Living
in
memory
is
not
living.
It
is
remembering.
Looking
ahead
can
set
a
destination.
Looking
ahead
may
create
dreams
that
come
true,
and
yet
in
the
moment
of
your
dream,
you
are
present
in
your
dream.
You
have
perhaps
transcended
ordinary
life,
or
perhaps
you
are
only
making
a
grocery
list.
Do
not
think
I
am
knocking
ordinary
life,
beloveds.
Much
of
your
life
is
spent
in
it.
I
am
saying
to
be
present.
Consider
this:
From
your
ordinary
awareness,
you
can
physically
be
in
only
place
at
a
time.
You
can't
be
in
New
York
and
San
Francisco
simultaneously.
You
are
in
one
or
the
other.
You
can
be
in
transit,
of
course,
yet
when
you
are
thinking
of
where
you're
going
and
where
you've
been,
your
awareness
is
spread
thin.
In
transit,
you
are
between
two
points,
yet
when
you
are
thinking
about
the
before
and
after,
you
are
not
quite
in
transit.
When
you
are
thinking,
"I
am
here,"
you
are
not
here.
You
are
somewhere
else.
It
is
more
like
you
are
buried
in
thought.
Where
are
you
at
all?
When
it
comes
to
non-existent
time,
you
can't
be
in
two
times
either.
You
can't
be
ahead
of
yourself
and
right
here,
nor
can
you
be
behind
yourself
and
here.
If
you
are
in
the
future
or
in
the
past,
you
are
not
here.
You
might
as
well
be
on
a
sabbatical.
It
is
like
you
are
fishing.
If
you
cast
your
line
behind
you,
it
is
not
in
the
water.
It
is
on
the
shore
behind
you.
If
you
cast
your
line
ahead,
it
may
land
on
the
shore
before
you
and
not
be
in
the
water.
If
you
want
to
catch
a
fish,
your
line
has
to
be
cast
into
the
water.
Thought
of
water
is
thought
of
water.
It
is
not
water.
Consider
life
the
water.
When
you
are
in
the
water,
you
are
wet.
When
you
are
out
of
the
water,
you
are
on
land
not
sea.
Thinking
about
life
is
not
living
it.
It
is
thinking
about
it.
To
live
life
you
immerse
in
it
and
so
it
is
more
like
a
state
of
no
thought.
You
are
swimming,
but
you
are
not
thinking,
"I
am
swimming."
You
simply
swim.
Out
of
the
moment,
is
the
place
where
fear
and
frenzy
and
worry
and
anguish
push
their
way
in.
In
the
so-called
moment,
you
are
out
of
worry
and
all
that.
They
simply
do
not
exist.
They
cannot
exist.
When
you
are
not
swimming
in
the
water,
you
are
thinking
about
getting
in.
Or
when
you
are
swimming
in
the
water,
you
may
be
thinking
about
getting
out.
To
be
present
in
the
water
is
to
be
swimming
with
Me.
It
is
to
be
the
water
itself,
the
sun
sparkling
on
it.
You
are
moving
through
the
water
yet
it
is
as
if
you
were
still,
for
you
are,
in
that
moment,
solidly
with
Me.
HEAVEN
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