HERE NOW

Wanna get out of your mind?
Come here/now --
The only place mind cannot get to.
Be here/now,
For as long and as often as you wish.

Mind can only dwell on its own memories of what is past
Or its fantasies on what might yet come.
To be in Mind is to be walking around in a dream;
To be here Here and Now is to be wide awake.

When you catch yourself falling asleep
Into the dead past or the imagined future,
Simply bring yourself back to Here and Now.
Don't beat yourself up about it --
It may happen hundreds of times every day.
That's OK.
Simply come back.
There's no need to go off looking for what led you astray.
Every time we stop to ponder that which stops us
We're still stopped
In the past
Aren't we?