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True life is perfect: You can see and experience a perfect life, because that is the way life actually is. Our imperfect minds mess it up.
It is hard to believe from your current perspective and level of awareness, but it is your own mind that makes life imperfect. The universe has to be perfect to exist.
You do not have to believe it; you can know it.
The present: It is interesting that the “NOW" is called the “present.” The present is the ultimate gift; it is the gift of truth and life. You are given the present every second, and you will receive it forever. The present is the only thing that exists, the only thing you are ever conscious of. Your life is a series of presents moving through time. The future does not exist until it becomes the present.
Life is one perpetual present.
Creation is happening now: Your body, mind, and the world around it are being created from microsecond to microsecond. Things may look the same, but they are not; everything is constantly changing and being recreated. Our life and our world is being created from moment to moment.
Life and everything in it is always new.
People think that they are not good looking enough, young enough, thin enough, smart enough, or rich enough etc. They live on the edge of the circle and just go around and around forever, lost in the illusions of their minds.
Greener grass: The concept of past, and future, and a distorted perception of the present keeps people running for the greener grass on the other side of the fence. They miss the present in the process.
Chasing the horizon: It is like running after the horizon; the faster you go, the faster it moves away from you. One day, you realize that you are standing on it. What you were running after is where you already are and always will be.
All people want is what is in the present, but they do not know it because they have never opened it. Almost no one knows what the present really is.
from page 7 of "The Present" at www.truthcontest.com