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our lives is spent living in the past or future. Do you agree with that or
no? Heres why I think that. When you are eating your food at any
meal where is your attention? Where are your thoughts? You might
guess that they are on your food, youd be wrong in most cases.
When we eat our minds are on the future or past. When we talk on
the phone to someone, our minds are in the future or the past. We
are rarely really present with the person and listening and HEARING
as they speak. Our thought runs off into the future as we formulate
the next few sentences the speaker has inspired. We dont listen and
we dont DO in the present.
Try this simple exercise. Try to keep your attention in the present for
just one minute. Can you do that? No thoughts about the future, just
experience what you are doing right now for one minute.
That is what the present looks like. We are so rarely there! Can you
see that the present is where we can perform action that matters for
the future and maybe erases the past? It actually becomes the past
once weve done it so we can positively affect the past and future
by acting in the present but not affect anything by being focused on
the past or present.
5 Love is happiness.
Aloha is a caring for others as well as or as much as for your own
self. Its an unselfish love, agape love its called by some. The
Hawaiians use the idea of Aloha to define their society, their
relationship with each other and their philosophy of life. It is with
aloha spirit that all things are done. Not meant to harm and not
meant to cause unhappiness to others.