Be Present

Snorkeling with humpback whales off the coast of the Dominican Republic, in March, 2007.

“What you are… what you actually are, is being. Being is not the mind thinking. Thinking is a movement, a motion. Being is the silence that precedes the motion. You cannot see it; you cannot grasp it because you are it. The feeling that you are. The unadorned naked awareness that is always there, rarely heeded, is what you always have been, always will be. Cannot not be. You can’t look for it, because it is what is looking. It is like space, you can’t see it but everything is in it. Everything is it. So I say to you, ‘be aware when you are unaware,’ let its presence warm you, fill you. Be present in the Presence.”
-Krishnamurti

In that quote, Krishnamurti points to our true nature, or what we actually are, with four different words: Being, silence, aware(ness), and presence.

Set aside some time each day to silently be aware: wordlessly, know that you are.

When you know you are aware, every aspect of living, both mental and physical, perfects itself.

When you know you are aware, without caring about anything you are aware of… Well, that is a great way to be.

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“Silence is the perfect teaching.” -Ramana Maharshi