Experience True Love By Accessing the Now

I have recently become quite inspired by the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. As he would however quickly point out that the teaching and the taught are actually one, together becoming the teaching.

All you ever have is the now, there has never been nor will ever be an experience of life outside the eternal now. This is where you find Love. In present day society we are consumed by time, rarely if ever experience the present moment free from thinking. The irony is that time is an illusion (the past nor the future only exist in memory traces pointing to a past event or anticipating a future that will only be experienced in the now). Your egoic mind creates your present "now" by either "comparing" it to the past or anticipating the future. Your present emotions are dictated by the interpretation of those either being "bad or good". This is madness, even though everyone accepts this way of being as "normal".

To experience true love, the key is to drop out of time and focus on the only true point the ever present "now". Your ego/thinking mind will fight you on this, it's survival is dependent on keeping you out of the "now".

There are many techniques such as meditation, yoga, sports, chanting etc.. that people utilize to become present but often once they move away from these activities the mind takes over again.

Love is inside you, it is limitless and eternal, it is God. Love and God are synonymous and can only be experienced in the now. The ego and love are opposed to one another, you are either serving love or ego, never both at the same time.

This is a radical shift, especially in western culture. It sounds simple but the actual practice is quite hard but the rewards of eternity and infinity (i.e. a return to God) make the practice worthwhile. God is here, NOW, our ego blinds us to his/here presence inside each of us.

If you are interested in exploring this philosophy further, I recommend the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle as an introduction. I have found that listening to his teachings on Simply Audiobooks as opposed to reading his books helps me internalize his teachings because his words come from a place of presence.