Whole body attention on sensation, relaxation and presence steps in. ‘I’ am present. There is another step. I can enter His presence. When ‘I’ am present there is a feeling of being here as the being ‘I’ have always been. When ‘I’ surrenders, a larger Presence steps in. This is not a matter of effort Read More

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Meeting someone from my past that I have not had contact with for 10 or 20 years, they begin to elaborate on what they ‘know’ to be me, as if nothing has changed or moved in all that time, even their original perception seems distorted, nothing that they are remembering is recognizable as myself and Read More

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Being present in the present is the first step in sobriety and the path of re-membering.

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To be present is to step out of personality and recollect being in the field of impartial attention.

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To be present is more than to be in the present.

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When I invoke presence, I pivot, I turn towards the real world. What is the real world? It is easier to describe what it is not. It is not the world of my personality, the world of the things I want, my anxieties or ambitions, my worries and fears, my roles in life. Being present, Read More

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