*PRESENT - Also see MOMENT, NOW
We wait until we finish high school, then college, then a job, car, house. We are not capable of being alive in the present moment. We always postpone being alive to the future and it is possible we will never be truly alive in our entire life. (Buddha, Christ, p17)
Prayer is to adjust one's consciousness and this must be done in the present. The best way to prepare for tomorrow is to make today's consciousness serene and harmonious. (Sermon on the Mount, p106)