Practice The Presence: Why?

Initially, when I was contemplating is excerpt for Practice The Presence and I came up with the title, my retort to the question was simply, Why not???

Isn’t that a great answer? A simple question? So why no?

• Because I don’t know how.


• Because I’m afraid to fail.


• Because I’m afraid what I’ll look like to others.


• Because I don’t have time.


• And the list goes on and on.

What’s your answer to why not? The list above is only a short list of the reasons I had, especially the first one on this list. But they are just excuses really. So before we consider any answers to the answer/question we really do have to go back to the first question: Why practice the presence?

Let me tell you why I practice the presence. I personally practice the presence because I want to see into me. I want to know me. In getting to know me I get to understand me. I get to really get why I do, why I feel, why I act the way I do.

So many seek enlightenment. So many want to see through their eyes the way that they think great ones like Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, Jesus and others saw things.

I did too at one time. But I have come to know that what they saw was not the evil in others; the corruption in a world gone wrong. What they saw was themselves. They saw and knew how short that they fall short of what we seek as perfection. What they came to see was that for change to occur it had to happen to begin with themselves. It has to begin with me!

So why practice the presence? – Why not! This is no longer posed as a a question to a question. It’s a statement! If practicing the presence causes me to look inside and to transform myself, that will give me a new world view. And by practicing the presence my new world view will cause me to feel differently, then it will also cause me to act differently. And if I act differently that may cause others to inquire as to why they see someone who is different. And it is my hope that this will cause them to seek this enlightenment, to shine a LIGHT INTO THEIR OWN SOUL.

MY TRUTH: To practice the presence may seem selfish. It may seem to be a challenge. It may even seem impossible. But for me to not practice the presence means that I will miss out on something so wonderful, me..the real me…and the real you, because it affects how I see you.

Practice The Presence: Why?