Here and now
This week I’m attending a meditation retreat in Costa Rica and in conversations with some older participants one thing that is becoming clear is that most of them wish they had practiced meditation earlier in their lives.
Why is that?
I believe it’s because there is no more important practice in life than becoming intimate with consciousness and experience.
Most of us think we can get what we want first… and then be happy.
That’s not how life works. If you are not a person that knows how to live a meaningful and fulfilled life now, money and success are not suddenly going to make you one.
On the contrary. If you have had to compromise your health, integrity and relationships in order to become successful, these capacities are awfully hard to restore later in life.
And if these capacities are compromised, familiarizing yourself with consciousness increasingly becomes an uphill battle.
