[Crisis & Awakening - VI]
One sign of an awakening has no external evidence, but entirely changes the way we experience the external world. It is simply an increased presence in each moment.
Here’s the neat thing about presence: it both serves as a discipline to foster awakening and a sign that awakening is underway. In other words, presence is something we can practice; it’s also a practice that becomes easier as we undergo renewal.
Presence is attentiveness. Mindfulness.*Here-ness*.
It’s a lack of distraction. Less desire to be elsewhere. Less *there-ness*.
As a discipline it helps to remove all distractions.
Alternatively, when renewal is fully underway, people report that external distractions make no difference.
