Surrounded

 The Sufi Saying, “Standing in the water, looking for the river,” reminds me that we are too often searching outside ourselves for something.  We cannot be present to the Now, as in Be Here Now.  We are immersed in, surrounded in the present moment by that which we seek.  Stuck in our thoughts of the past, future, fantasy, emotional instability, we miss what is present to us.  The holy, the fullness, Love, is within and around us.  We are standing in that for which we search.  Meditation brings us to where we can experience the river.  We are here, but then the mind takes off and we are gone elsewhere.  What moved?