This Present Moment

We are profoundly unaware of the
present. That is, the here and now,
the place that we always are, is the
place that we are least likely to see
for what it fully is. Blaise Pascal,
though living four centuries ago,
keenly diagnosed this peculiar
human condition. In his work,
Pensees, he masterfully articulates
our seeming lack of interest in the
present. Writes Pascal,

"Let each one examine his thoughts,
and he will find them all occupied
with the past and the future. We
scarcely ever think of the present;
and if we think of it, it is only to take
light from it to arrange the future.
The present is never our end. The
past and the present are our means;
the future alone is our end. So we
never live, but we hope to live; and,
as we are always preparing to be
happy, it is inevitable we should
never be so."

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