Whats the secret to living in the moment?

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Whats the secret to living in the moment?

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Hi Skycat, brbr This is good. This really is one of my most important mantras.brbr A very smart man, for whom I hold in the highest esteem, shared a comment with me, after some time, it clicked. I asked him the very question you posed on this website.brbrI asked, quotHow can it be possible to live in the moment? brbrHe replied, quotPicture this somewhat vulgar analogy, if you will. This may illustrate the ease of how to acheive this way of living, and also it may also show you just how equally easy it is to get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow, those two eternities, for which are forever out of our control.brbrHe stood up with legs apart like at a driving range.brThen as he looked at his legs, he then said to me,br quotWhen you have one leg quotstanding in yesterday,bramp when you have the other quotstanding in tomorrow, bryou see how you are pissing on today !!!br brNow, I know this is not an elegant analogy of the brcrystal clear point, he was trying to get across, however, I saw EXACTLY what he meant. I knewbrEXACTLY how to put that dirty, tasteless analogybrinto the context of how I was living my life.brbrSo, in a nutshell, if my mind is thinking about yesterday, and my mind is also thinking about what may happen tomorrow, how much of our THOUGHTS, ATTENTION AND FOCUS IS HONESTLY,TRUTHFULLY, LIVING IN TODAY ?brNot much, is there buddy. Thats why the people of Alcoholics Anonymous have many credos and mantras. One of the deepest and most loved mantra of A.A. is quotLive, one day at a timequottoday.brbrKind regards from Toronto, Canada.