Who Are We?

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on . . . ." Shakespeare

Humans seem to spend time wondering who they are, why they are here.  Many have undertaken a spiritual quest to answer such a question.  Eckhart Tolle says we are more than and deeper than our thoughts, our mind sets, our opinions.  I agree.  Tolle says that the way to become the more that we are is to be aware in the present moment.  Sounds simple, and yet, how many of us resist the present moment or think of it as just a way to get to the next (what we think of as better) moment?  The only real intimacy exists when one is present in the moment.  Even with someone with dementia, there are still moments of shared intimate space -- when that person is lucid and the other person is present to the moment.  The present moment is so rich; let us set an intention to be present to the present moment, to not resist it, but to accept it for what is.  After all, that really is all we ever have for sure:  the present moment.