All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.