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This is the Moment! This is It!
The greatest thing you can accomplish is to be fully present now
When I was in my early 20’s I had a huge need to have cosmic experiences. The more cosmic the better.
I wanted to see God. I wanted my third eye opened. I wanted to become enlightened.
As Jerry Seinfeld likes to say, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”
But for me, there was. For me, my grand aspirations for bigger, better and beyond were getting in my way of fully enjoying whatever was happening in the moment — especially the moments I judged to be mundane.
I became very clear about this phenomenon in the middle of a Landmark Education course I attended back in the 1990's.
One of the exercises we did in that in-your-face course was about revealing one’s “racket” — the kind of ongoing, subsurface “shtick” that got in the way of a person living a fully conscious life.
My racket could be reduced to just seven words:
“I have more important things to do.”
