The Power of Now: Waiting

 

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Are you worried? Do you have many "what if" thoughts? There is no way you can cope with such a situation because it doesn't exist. You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future -- nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action, or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

"One day I'll make it."  Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better. A perfect recipe for permanent dissatisfaction and nonfulfilment.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got and you want what you haven't got. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is the deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, and perfect. Your life situation consists of circumstances and your experiences. There is nothing wrong with setting goals and striving to achieve things. The mistake lies in using it as a substitute for the feeling of life, for Being. The only point of access for that is the Now.

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.

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