Reply #2: Hadn't heard that, but it IS a great description. That is what being

[Dover]

fully present is.....living outside time. It is our "awakened divinity". The present time is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment'.

Eckhart Tolle describes it this way:

Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But you don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally. To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of 'feeling realization' is enlightenment.

-- from, The Power of Now


Many misunderstandings and false beliefs about Christ will clear if you realize that there is no past or future in Christ. To say that Christ 'was' or 'will be' is a contradiction in terms. Jesus was. He was a man who lived two thousand years ago and realized divine presence, his true nature. And so he said: "Before Abraham was, I am." He did not say: "I already existed before Abraham was born."
That would have meant that he was still within the dimension of time and form identity. The words 'I am' used in a sentence that starts in the past tense indicate a radical shift, a discontinuity in the temporal dimension. It is a Zen-like statement of great profundity.
Jesus attempted to convey directly, not through discursive thought, the meaning of presence, of self realization. He had gone beyond the consciousness dimension governed by time, into the realm of the timeless. The dimension of eternity had come into this world. Eternity, of course, does not mean endless time, but NO time. Thus, the man Jesus became Christ, a vehicle for pure consciousness. And what is God's self-definition in the Bible? Did God say "I have always been, and I always will be"? Of course not. That would have given reality to past and future. God said "I AM THAT I AM". No time here, just presence.

The 'second coming' of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. If "Christ" were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to you other than this:

"I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now."

-- from The Power of Now, p. 86-87.