What is now? Can you live in the past? Can you exist in the future? Do you want to?
The place and time in which you can live, and the place and time in which you can be happy, is this moment. There is no other time available to you. You can remember "the past", but you cannot go there, and you cannot live in the past or correct it in its time frame. Likewise, you can have hopes for "the future", but the future is not where you live right now. There is only this moment.
If you want to be happy, you have this moment in which you can be happy. There is no other time available to you. But you can be happy in this moment. It is your choice to be so.
How can you live and be happy in this moment? The difficulty of living in the World of People is that we think there is a way to become happy in the future. We are told that owning more things helps. We are told that being more important helps. But when the future arrives, it is always this moment. When is there anything but this moment?
The problem facing us is how to be happy right now.
Happiness comes from awareness. Awareness of this moment. Awareness of what we really are. Awareness of how we can use this moment to help others. Happiness is a decision we make about how to live now in the World of the Absolute, and not later in the World of People.
If you are going to attempt anything, it must be now. If you are going to understand anything, it can only be in this moment. Each moment, you are given this opportunity. Each moment, you can make a change.
