The Barefacts of the Moment

 Just give attention to the barefacts of the moment...

Eckhart Tolle

Seems so simple...yet it is not.  We keep slipping away from this "higher ideal" as Vivekananda called it. To be able to see the moment for what it is beyond everything the story telling personality does with it and more importantly to see the perfection of Source in all of it...is not always easy.  We tend to fail and fall back into personal mind and ego's drama again and again.

That's okay. Vivekanada encouraged:

...never mind these failures, these backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. Vivekananda

We need to embrace what is as it is because the Divine exists in that. The drama of little "me", these stories we create around the "suchness", the "isness" of Life pull us away from experiencing the perfect moment.  They take us away from seeing God in everything.

He has hidden Himself inside the atom... the Ancient One who resides in the inner most recess of every human heart. Vivekananda

We need to stay conscious in every moment, not lost in the character roles we are playing, not lost in the drama, the stories the personality writes as we go along. We can do this no matter how challenging or dramatic our circumsatnces seem to be. 

...if you had to starve, you can also starve consciously

Bring vigalence to the inner state so you no longer believe the outer state is more important than the inner state. Tolle

The inner state is everything!!! It exists in this moment...here and now...beyond story, beyond the narrative, the drama. Seek it! Honor it! For it is there where God can be found.

All is well.

Eckhart Tolle (July, 2025) How to Stay Conscious in Difficult Moments.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LkxMBxSgtc

Swami Vivekananda(n.d.) Complete Works. Kindle