Hamza Kashgari

A Saudi poet and former newspaper columnist jailed by the government for three tweets -

and they say we are 'free'...

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"You can buy your way out of jail - but you can't buy freedom"- Kanye West
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The here and now - Utterly Amazing

Over the past two weeks I have tried my hardest to fully embrace myself in the here and the now, the present moment that which knows no future and no past, that which has no worries, no regrets, no anxieties. No mistakes to cry over, no ambitions to plan for, no objectives to work towards.No concern for the opinion of others, not a care about where it came from or where it is going. No thoughts, because there is nothing to think about, no future cause there is nowhere to go, there is nothing else to do, nowhere else to be, nothing else to have. It so simple, yet so revolutionary, so straight-forward yet so elusive : the fact that we are HERE, we have always been HERE, we have never been never experienced, never known anything else, you have never gone back to the past to cry, you have never gone into the future to laugh..nope everything you have ever, will ever, can ever do is in this present moment. The moment I realised this, I realized the real reason why my mind has been such a mess over recent years, the reason why I am always stressing, worrying, paining, living anxiously, the reason why so many relationships have failed, the reason why so many projects have been shelved and left undone, the reason I am so anxious about my future and my career, my place in the world - And the real reason behind this is because I have hardly ever been here. It is a hard pill to swallow but - imagine mentally spending a good part of 22 years somewhere else...its utterly ridiculous!

Only in a few moments when I do what I love, and can so easily engage myself in - have I been so easily able to forgo that natural human urge to be somewhere else, but every other moment in time it has been an implicit, silent struggle. But there is hope, because when one takes cognisance of the fact that there is no-one and nowhere else to be - all the unnecessary life-draining, negative-tending thoughts fall to the way side, and your life begins to manifest in the only way it knows how - in the now... It is honestly a beautiful beautiful thing...



















T4aM
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Be here now, you honestly cannot be anywhere else fully....
The truth is : that Mother Nature only knows today....
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