For me, if it requires time, it isn’t real. The only way I exist is because I am enough the way I am right now, and it is always right now. Every choice that I think I make is an attempt to control things outside of me in time, and if I need to rely on time, it means I will follow a conditioned survival script, already implanted in my brain, from my past personal experiences, or what my society taught me to believe is right or wrong, when desiring pleasure and avoiding pain.

To do otherwise is not to think, but to be aware, in an active meditative state; when the mind is quiet, time stops, and I can listen to my body, which is always in the present moment. If I stay aware of my breath and am in rhythm with my beating heart, I can feel the flowing universal Life energy of Love—my Higher Power—which leads me to understanding the truth, that requires no choice, because the truth is all there is.

So, there is no choice of becoming; only the right action of being the truth of loving-kindness that is constantly flowing through me and leading me, when my mental conditioning does not get in the way, by creating the illusion of time and choices, all based on the past. The truth is: Love is all there is in the present moment—when I don’t distort it with the past in my mind!

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