Inspirational Quotes & Stories about Being in the Now
Before that thought form I went through the day without noticing the
splendor of the great service that could be provided in the moment, or
how I talked to or treated my fellow beings. Today I'm eternally
grateful for even the shortest of interactions, and now, like a small
child on Christmas Eve, I look forward to each and every moment as a
present waiting to be unwrapped, experienced and shared.
Before that thought form I would open doors for people or give away my
seat on the bus simply because I was taught that it was the right thing
to do. Today, I experience great joy in such actions and thank God for
being able to be there for the interaction. I now see any moment that I
can be of service as offering a great service to humanity.
Before that thought form I found silence boring, and tried to find
something to drown it out. Today, I use those moments to fill my body
and soul with a light filled with absolute peace and gratitude that I
then use to expand out into the world. As the world breathes a little
easier, so too do I.
Before that thought form I fought to better myself and lead and serve a
great number of people. Today I find peace and love in the moment. This
expands to everyone I touch and with whom I interact and they in turn
expand what I offer them to others. By doing so, I serve the world. By
simply knowing the truth about my brothers, sisters and myself, I help
lead the world to a more peaceful and joyful place.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 102
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What if any and every moment you experience anger, frustration and
stress could be reinterpreted through understanding, forgiveness and
love? Would you not be grateful for such a shift in your perceptions?
Remember in the Godself's view, there is no experience or expression
other than that of love or a call for love, a call for assistance. Thus
if in any moment you perceive that your brother doing is something that
is causing you anger, frustration and stress, then understand that not
only is he asking for assistance, but that you yourself are asking for
assistance. Yes, you have unconsciously asked your brother to help you
bring forth to your conscious mind those areas in your life where you
still perceive that reactions and expressions of frustration, anger, and
stress are correct and proper responses to God's creation.
Where the ego-self has trained you to act and react with frustration,
anger and stress, the Godself is trying to remind you of the true gift
that your brother is offering. Remember that every moment that the
ego-self defines with frustration, anger and stress, that same moment is
seen by the Godself as a gift to be grateful for. The gift is allowing
you to consciously bring up the blocks to your awareness of love's
presence. The blocks must be brought to the surface, seen, experienced
and understood before they are dismantled, and that is what your brother
is offering you. Once the blocks to your awareness of love's presence
are dismantled, all that is left is the awareness of love's presence in
every moment. Would you not be grateful to your brother or sister for
this offering? Would you not be grateful to them once and for all for
assisting you in dismantling the blocks of frustration, anger and stress
and showing you the moment as it truly is? Is not the replacement of
anger, frustration and stress with love a wondrous gift? Would gratitude
not be the proper response to such a gift?
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 123-124
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I remember smiling at Him during the experience, and mentally expressing
to Him that I "got it." And I remember Him smiling back at me, mentally
expressing to me that He knew I did. In a time of chaos, I found a
moment of peace. Once this moment was recognized, it became all there
was. It was I who had made the chaos real by focusing on it, and it was
I who released this chaos by focusing on the truth. In any moment, you
have a choice. Focus on the illusions and you will experience them;
focus on the truth and you will experience it. As you grow, fear and
chaos will be released, and peace and harmony will take their place. It
will be these moments of growth that will lead you to experience more
consistent peace and harmony in your life. It will be experiences such
as these that will remind you that the choice to focus on fear and chaos
or peace of mind and joy are yours.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 163
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My friend, if you're not in the now, you are lost. You call a foreign
place home and wonder why you feel lost and alone. You bring judgments
of the past into the present and question why you don't understand what
is really going on. You look at a brother or sister, call him or her a
stranger instead of a friend and speculate as to why you live in fear.
My friend, you live in fear because you bring all your past judgments
into the present moment.
You extend your past into your present, creating a future like your
past, and thus you never really experience the present. Living this way,
you will never experience the perfection of the present moment. The
present is God's eternal gift to you. It is when you look at a brother
or sister without past judgments and see a friend. When you see your
brother or sister as God's perfect creation, you are experiencing the
present moment. It happens when you look into your brother or sister's
eyes and see yourself reflected in them. You need only do this once and
you will want no other way. If you see your brother or sister as
something other than God's perfect creation, know that you are
exchanging your past judgments for the present moment.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 184
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When properly
perceived, all moments are opportunities to remember the presence of
love. When things seem to be going against you, they are occurring in
order to allow you to see and experience your personal blocks to the
awareness of love's presence. The presence of love is available to you
in every moment. Gratitude and joy are the only sane responses to the
presence of love. If gratitude and joy are not your immediate responses
to the moment, you are misperceiving reality. The unconscious
misperception of reality produces confusion and stress. Any confusion
and stress that you are experiencing are in and of themselves gifts
because they make you aware of your personal blocks to the awareness of
love. These moments when you experience stress and confusion can
actually be used as opportunities to find and define those unconscious
blocks. In finding and defining these blocks, you begin the undoing
process. In the undoing process, you will question why it is that you
are choosing to act and or react in a manner that is causing you stress
and confusion. Sooner or later, you will acknowledge to yourself that
you do not want to act or react in a manner that causes you stress and
confusion. By acknowledging behaviors you don't want to experience, you
will understand and recognize that there is another way, a more sane and
loving way to experience the moment. You will begin acting and reacting
in this more loving manner and you will experience more love and joy in
your life. You will experience greater peace in your life. There will be
moments when you will forget and react and act with confusion and
stress, but these occasions will slowly diminish and become a smaller
part of your day. As they become a smaller part of your day, they also
become a smaller part of your life. The moments when awareness of the
presence of love is experienced will increase, filling a larger part of
your day. Gratitude and joy will become natural responses to having such
daily awareness. The same moments in which you experienced stress and
confusion, you will now experience the presence of love, and you will
simply smile at your past misperceptions. Not only will you smile, but
you will also experience gratitude for them. You will know that it was
only because you got tired of what they offered that you ever questioned
their existence in your life. And again, you will look back into your
past and this time see every misperception as the true gift that it was.
Once more, you will smile and be thankful in acknowledging the
perfection of each moment in your life. In this, you will find great
peace, for you will understand that in all future moments, you will also
have the opportunity to acknowledge the presence of love and be thankful
for its perfection.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 224-225
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Be open to new
experiences, for they are often signs and guideposts that the universe
offers you as guidance. Most of us go on throughout the day on
autopilot, not paying attention to signposts, considering them every day
data that we process on one level or another. For example, a few days
before a business trip to New Orleans, I was driving on I-95 headed
north to West Palm Beach, Florida. Off to my right I saw a billboard
advertising renewing driver's licenses via the Internet. I thought to
myself, "this sounds like a great idea, a real time saver." In my mind I
gave the state of Florida points for using the Internet in such a
productive manner. I usually don't pay any attention to billboards, but
this one stuck in my mind. I promised myself that next time I had to
renew my license I would do it via the "Net."
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 242
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