**\#️⃣ Tags:** #Wisdom #Presence > **🌱 Planted:** Tue 11 February 2025 --- Most of the time, we find ourselves lost in thought. We dwell on the past and worry about the future in hopes we can change the now to shape a future that hasn't yet arrived. As this is happening, we're not present in the now. Our thoughts are alive, with all their worries, judgements, preferences, desires and hopes for changing the now. But we ourselves are not alive in the now. We're instead mentally time travelling to a place that has nothing to do with it. Thing is, even when we drift into past or future thought, we never truly leave the now. Because even the thoughts themselves are happening right here in the now. It is only the meaning of our thoughts which give them the appearance of being somewhere else, but the actual thought itself is still here now. So even if we wanted to escape the now, we can't. Because the now is all there is. When we can recognise that there is nowhere else to go and nowhere else to be other than to be here in the now, we can finally let go and gracefully rest into it. So be here now[^1]. Because there's nowhere else *to* be. [^1]: Inspired by the title of Ram Dass' book [[Be Here Now by Ram Dass|Be Here Now]].