Everything Comes from Presence: The Secret to Doing the Impossible
Have you ever noticed that when you’re fully here—completely immersed in the moment—life seems to rearrange itself? Things you thought were difficult suddenly become fluid. Ideas appear out of nowhere. Energy feels abundant. It’s as if the impossible starts to dissolve in front of your eyes.
The central teaching of masters, both ancient and modern, is that the present moment is not just a point in time, but the source of all reality and creative power. By being fully present, you can align with this source and access a power that allows you to create or do things that seem impossible.
Ancient Voices on Presence
Lao Tzu called it Tao—the nameless source of all things. When we align with it,, life does the heavy lifting for us. What we thought required strain instead unfolds with ease.
“The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things." This quote points to the "nameless" or unmanifested as the source of all creation. This is synonymous with pure Presence or Tao.
Buddha taught that suffering arises when we live in memories of the past or projections of the future. Liberation is found in the immediacy of the present, where wisdom and compassionate action naturally flow.
Mystics and Miracles
Jesus – “Take no thought for tomorrow.” His emphasis was on faith in the eternal Now—when rooted in God’s Presence, miracles unfolded naturally.
Rumi – “Try to accept the changing seasons of your heart, even if you’ve never met this visitor before.” He spoke of dissolving into the moment so deeply that divine creativity and impossible love burst forth.
Modern Teachers
Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now) – Describes Presence as the stillness behind thought, the field in which all life happens. By being fully here, we tap into the power of life itself, beyond the limitations of the mind. He once said: the Presence is where all power resides.
Krishnamurti – Insisted that transformation happens instantly in the present, not through time or effort. In pure attention—Presence without motive—the mind is free, and new possibilities open.
Osho – “The present is the only door.” He emphasized that when you are fully present, you stop being a limited self. Creativity and power beyond imagination flow through you.
Ram Dass
"Be Here Now."
This simple phrase became his lifelong teaching. It is a direct instruction to let go of mental stories and arrive fully in the moment - this place is actually where you’ve been longing for.
"Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime.Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW... so you stop asking."
"The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there—so there the mountain stays."
This quote brilliantly illustrates that the power to do the impossible comes from a shift in consciousness. The desire to "move the mountain" comes from the ego. When the ego dissolves and you align with your true nature (the one who "put the mountain there"), the need to control or change reality disappears.
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Scientists-Psychologists:
Psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the father of flow, describes the experience this way:
“Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action … follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”
Psychology Today explains that in flow:
“Action and awareness merge (awareness covers the scope of action). Our sense of self and our sense of self-consciousness completely disappear. Time dilates … and all aspects of performance are incredibly heightened—including creative performance.”
Essence: Masters agree—Presence is the ground of creation. When fully here, we align with inexhaustible energy, creativity, and intelligence far greater than the personal mind. That’s when the “impossible” becomes possible.
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Creating the Impossible by Being Fully Present
When you are fully present, you move beyond the limitations of your mind's habitual patterns and access a higher intelligence. This enables you to do "impossible" things for several reasons:
It Dissolves Mental Barriers, Unlocking Intuition and Inner Guidance. The egoic mind is a survival mechanism that is obsessed with fear, doubt, and past failures. It constantly tells you what you cannot do. When you are fully present, these thoughts lose their power, allowing you to act from a place of clarity and courage. The "impossible" suddenly becomes a possibility because the voice of doubt has been quieted.
It Taps into a Unified Field of Potential. Many spiritual traditions and even modern quantum physics point to a unified field of intelligence or energy. By letting go of your separate, limited sense of self (the ego), you connect to this larger field, which contains infinite possibilities. From this state of presence, you are no longer a separate entity trying to force an outcome but are in harmony with the creative intelligence of the universe.
It Focuses Your Energy. Your consciousness is like a powerful beam of light. Usually, it's scattered across countless thoughts, worries, and plans. When you are fully present, all that energy is focused on one single point: the moment. This concentrated, focused energy has immense power to manifest and create.
