Can you imagine going one day without wanting anything?  I wonder if it’s even possible.

Recently my sister made the remark that she’s done everything that she has wanted to do in her life.  My first reaction was disbelief.  Then I asked her to clarify, and she said she’s completely satisfied with her life.  My second reaction, more disbelief!

It seems in my own life not a second goes by without me wanting, wishing, hoping or striving for something.  The idea of not functioning from that place is intriguing.  Is it possible to just be and to be satisfied with just being exactly who I am and where I am?  According to Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now,” yes it is.  It seems that one of the keys to achieving this state of “being” is to not allow ourselves to be defined by what we do, who we know, where we live, what we drive, the color of our skin.  None of these truly define who we are.

I don’t think who a person is can be defined.  I think if we could exist without labeling ourselves and thereby boxing ourselves into a prescribed behavior, we’d be a lot happier, calmer.  It’s hard to keep others from labeling us, be we have the power to not label ourselves … to not get caught up in the “wanting” that either keeps us stuck in the past (I wish that hadn’t happened …) or stuck in the future (I wonder what’s gonna happen…).  Without the labels we free ourselves to live in the NOW … “there is therefore, NOW!”

I’m trying to be more in the “now” and it’s hard.  Those moments when I achieve presence are awesome … those glimpses of the real me stripped of ego and wanting.  I know I’ll experience more of those moments, and that those moments will grow into minutes, hours, days …

Let’s live moment by moment and not just let them go by without having immersed ourselves in them!!!

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