25 May 2017

The enemy of the present

The surest way to be distracted from right-here-now is to start thinking, particularly when those thoughts are about myself. Because I developed my sense of self from my thoughts (about me and my life) I ended up with an ego.


And my ego is the enemy of my being present. For one thing, if I indulge in any activity that stops me thinking, my ego is alerted, perhaps because it associated not thinking with loss of self