During a long retreat, I had what seemed to me the earthshaking revelation that we cannot be in the present and run our story lines at the same time! It sounds pretty obvious, I know, but when you discover something like this for yourself, it changes you.
Pema Chodron, When Things fall Apart
You will only grab hold of concepts if you follow the storyline.
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Mindfulbalance 
Reblogged this on bodhisattvaintraining and commented:
one gem after another on this blog 🙂
have found this to be true … the present has no story, only being 🙂
Hmm I think we live our stories every day, even in the present. I will have to think on this a bit more.