Episode 4.45: Backing off the present makes its imperfections worse. We should engage with it more.

There is no suggestion in what I’m saying that the present needs to be perfect before we can live in it. On the contrary, the present is always imperfect but backing away from it only makes it more so. We would be surprised how much more we could learn and derive from the present - how much more we would enjoy it - if we engaged with it more wholeheartedly and fully.