Presence

“Where shall I look for Enlightenment?”
“Here.”
“When will it happen?”
“It is happening right now.”
“Then why don’t I experience it?”
“Because you do not look.”

“What should I look for?”
“Nothing. Just look.”
“At what?”
“Anything your eyes alight upon.”
“Must I look in a special kind of way?”
“No. The ordinary way will do.”

“But don’t I always look the ordinary way?”
“No.”
“Why ever not?”
“Because to look you must be here. You’re mostly somewhere else.”
_{Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom}