Totally Present
In meditation what we are endeavouring to do is be totally present.
To be true to all the men and women we ever meet, including our children, including our lovers, is to be totally present when we are with them … Not to want to be somewhere else, not to be thinking about something. Whatever you think about is where you want to be. Don’t try and be in two places. You must have the strength, the rightness, the honesty to be where you are.
Unless you can stay poised in this state of presence, you cannot know the truth; you cannot know God; you cannot find yourself. Only in such stillness, such humility, such love, can there be a true communication of being to being.
Extract from Stillness Is The Way
Stillness