In the NOW of THEN? [ You mention grabbing the day, and grabbing the full essential quality of it at that moment, each moment as they pass. You also mention that this moment, the now, will never happen again. And presumably that is the reason for grabbing it to its fullest extent at each moment as they come and go. But does not knowing full well that it will pass and never happen again deteriorate from the quality of that moment in that now? ]
It would indeed be a dose of negativity in the cup of that moment if one was thinking about its passing and its not existing again. But if you were thinking about anything else at that time then by definition you are NOT grabbing that moment and living it to its fullest essential quality in the NOW. You would be spoiling the moment by writing a future or a past into it. You can only ever live one moment at a time, so take good advantage of that. Don't spoil it by adding a time that does not exist to it; no matter whether it be a past time or a future time. Doing that loses the moment AS IS. This whole point was made clear to me when living in that transcendent mode of the eternal now. (the GOB). For one could NOT think there? There was nothing to spoil THE MOMENT. The moment that never changed. Do you see? Mystical experience is a great learning device. But here on earth in TIME, one can stop thinking any time one wants to. It is not compulsory to be thinking all the time. It is while not thinking about the moment that one can LIVE it to its fullest extent. THAT is grabbing the moment. ALSO, keep in mind that moments become written on to memory and they are written AS THEY WERE lived in that moment. So, if it was not fully lived in that moment then the NOW of THEN (which you can relive in memory) is also not of the highest quality of its being. Memories are an extremely important part of the incarnate life. Not only do we have to think while here, but we have to think well, and remember well. But there are times for no thinking and no remembering while in the moment. Because they distract from it. It seems to be a natural part of the mystic life to know when and when not to think and remember. How many times each day do you stop thinking and remembering and just live that moment AS IT IS NOW? Doing that MAKES the moment. If you do not do that then you have missed the moment. And what then would go into the records? Nothing. A blank. A memory should be as sharp in the NOW as it was in the NOW of THEN. That is what I mean by grabbing the day. Today will never come back again. It is only lived ONCE. SO LEARN IT. You do not learn and record the NOW by thinking about it. You learn it by LIVING it. Experience IS the food of life. Eat well and grow by it. Dick Richardson
