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How to Find Stillness, Peace, and Presence — Immediately, Not “Someday”

Matt Karamazov
5 min readAug 25, 2021

Later doesn’t exist. When the future gets here and becomes the present, the future gets pushed back, and later remains as far away from you as ever. If you live for “later,” you’re never going to get to start living.

This is plain and simple and obvious, but most people seem to be rushing about in a great hurry, exposing themselves to unnecessary misery and suffering, only to get to a future that, when they get to it, they won’t be there; they’ll be living in some other future that still hasn’t arrived.

There’s a better way, and it’s no secret. Or rather, it’s an open secret, known and talked about and written about and discussed for thousands of years. It’s called getting in tune with the present moment (which you already are, by the way; it’s only your efforts not to be here now that result in you missing out on now), and it’s free, open to everyone, and known to brilliant teachers like Eckhart Tolle.

The best part is that Eckhart Tolle and the others aren’t interested in keeping it a secret either! Their discoveries — peace, stillness, serenity, life itself — are all laid out in their books, which are basically free. A case in point being the remarkable book, Stillness Speaks.

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Matt Karamazov
Matt Karamazov

Written by Matt Karamazov

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