IS NOW OK?...... OR IS THERE SOME BETTER TIME?

“Sailor” Bob Adamson said one day - “What's all this crap about 'trying to live in the Here and Now'? How can you NOT live Here in the Now? 

Try this instead – try to get out of Here; try to break out from Now. Come on, try it. Try to live back two minutes ago. You can recall bits of it, but you're recalling it here/now. You can't go back and live in the past because you're locked in here/now. It doesn't matter where or when you go, you cannot be anywhere but here and now. If you're doing guilty (past) or worry (future), you're doing it now! If you go to Bali or Timbuktu, when you get there, that will be your “Here”. So why go searching to find something you're already in, and can't get out of?????

Give up the search; it's the searching that is stopping you from getting it. Step in to the shade, put down your baggage, and sit down. Loosen up and be open in the heart.

Ego thinks lot, but always at the expense of conscious awareness. While you're in your churning and turning mind, you have no hope of connecting with your Present Awareness. You can't think about what you're going to have for lunch AND be present at the same time. Try it. It's not possible, is it? You have to switch back and forth. You have to drop out of awareness for as long as you give your attention over to thinking. You cannot think and be aware at the same time.

There is one place your mind just cannot ever be – Here/Now. It's not possible, despite those who'll tell you they can do it. Your mind can only notice that something has already occurred, and it can only deal with one thing at a time. Sure, it can flick its attention back and forth quickly, but still only one thing at a time. John Lennon noticed - “Life is what's happening while you're making other plans.” 

Mind can never be in the Present, but it sure clogs up Now with its future/past fantasies. And fantasies are all that they are. Past and Future do not exist -- unless you think about them. Surrender to the Present, the only reality -- inescapable.

[The Morning – Moody Blues – 3:56]