The allure of living in the present moment is popular but also endangered. The pandemic lockdown has forced millions of people into cramped living conditions that disrupts normal life, puts strain on ...

Sometimes, the present moment is precisely what we need. Sometimes, it is unbearable. The present moment is not a benign psychological state of calm and tranquillity; it is to be approached with ...

If being in the present is so important, why is that? Among other things—including the quality of one's own experience—it must be because it is within the present moment that anything consequential ...

When I read The Wisdom of Insecurity by the philosopher Alan Watts in college, it turned my world around. He hammered home a point that is simple, yet startling: life only exists in the present moment ...