Why would the crowded field of self-help, spirituality and “living in the now” need another blog and website? I thought about it and to be honest:
After almost six decades of life on this spinning earth hurtling through space, having the honor of coaching thousands of hours, flying the earth teaching about love and letting go, and performing on stages from Moscow to Mother Theresa’s, I, too, wonder – what is left to share or teach that hasn’t been offered since ancient times. You might be surprised at the answer.
My answer is, not much. In fact, nothing. There is nothing left to teach. Nothing left to add to your arsenal of tools for self-realization. Of course, there are powerful approaches out there. Letting go is one, but in the end, it’s all been said before. Then what is left? The most obvious: the available peace in the present moment. This is what we’ve overlooked, left behind, and gone seeking – AND why we suffer. Unknowingly deserting the now. We travel mentally and emotionally everywhere else but here. We even unconsciously run from here, the present moment. Why does this cause suffering?
Because in the end, the now is the only portal to the relief that we seek from our exhausting quest for happiness. Beneath our layers of fear about work, parenting, our health, caring for aging parents, conversations in our head, stress in our belly, or love in our hearts, we find the undeniable. We find this present moment. It is beneath all else – even when the mind takes our attention to the past or future, the present remains. Interestingly, it is without beginning or end. It is actually timeless and is the only place happiness can ever be known. It is the only place because behind all else we discover that WE are the timeless place. We are unbound presence itself.
It is this timeless and edgeless presence that contains all of life, both pain and pleasure. When we allow both pain and pleasure to be, even in our times of greatest suffering, it creates an opening to a transformative understanding. We discover that our profound acceptance of our humanness reveals the gift within the now, a tranquility that benevolently accompanies whatever is being experienced. Following the mind incessantly to the past and future guarantees that we miss where rest and peace are ultimately found. Eckart Tolle is right about the power of now. However, how can you live this way day to day?
Everything in my website is devoted to this: my blog, writings, videos, audios, and events. They are each a humble attempt to offer ways to accept your humanness while unveiling the untouched and infinite nature of your being – only and forever found in the now. I deeply hope these offerings help you glimpse and deeply recognize how to live with this as a more firm foundation for your daily life, beginning in this very moment. With greatest love, D
