The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.
The present moment is all you ever have.
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.