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It's an old, old story. He clings to the face of the cliff (could be she); a hungry tiger paces above him, a hungry tiger paces below him. He is slowly, inevitably slipping. If he escapes the tiger below by scrambling up, he is tiger meat. If he does nothing, he slips down to become…tiger meat. He looks around him, and there within arm's reach a succulent ripe strawberry is growing. He plucks the strawberry, and eats it bite by bite.
This is our strawberry, this moment in time that we call now. This now is the only time we are happy, the only place we experience our lives directly. We're not happy yesterday or tomorrow, in the past or in the future: that's remembered or anticipated happiness. Being happy, like breathing and like all experience, is here and now, nowhere else, nowhen else.
Now is eternal when we let go of the twin tigers of yesterday and tomorrow and give our attention to the present moment. Right here and right now is the action time, the only place we actually touch our lives directly and the only time we can change and transform our lives effectively.
say yes to affirmative living is about living in the now. It's presented in 26 parts from A to Z, a landscape rather than a precise road map, ideas about approaching our lives in gladness and affirmation. Choose your favourite letter.