Don’t say ‘I have been HERE before’. You haven’t. No matter how familiar things look and feel, you have never been HERE before. Just because your conditioned mind drags the past into the present, it doesn’t turn the present into the past.
The present can never be the past since it is always new and alive. Or rather, it is always NOW and ALIVE. So, if you feel that the present looks no different to the past, WAKE UP. Pay attention. Be here, now – In the clothes you are wearing NOW, in the way you are sitting NOW, in the ground you are standing on NOW, in the breath you are breathing NOW, in the blood you are circulating NOW, in the cells you are feeding NOW, in the voice you are speaking with NOW.
None of these were present even a moment ago for all things are in constant flux, yes, even the fibres in your clothes. So don’t say you have been here before. Don’t allow the past to blind you to the present. Be here completely and you will see how the past has no choice but to release you from its grip while the Present folds you into itself like a mother her new born child.
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