Why Living in the Present Requires Letting Go of Peak Experiences
Moments And What to Do with Them
“ There are moments that stand out from the chaos of everyday as shining beacons” — Mihaly Csikzent-mihalyi
The deepest longing of our human experience is to capture these moments. And sometimes, we do. But in our grasping, we cage them—trapping them in memory, craving their return again and again.
This is where we miss the mark. Our hunger for what has passed not only leaves us aching for what we can never re-live, but blinds us to the moments unfolding right here, right now.
What if our very pursuit of these moments is what keeps us stuck?
What if the only way to truly hold them… is to let them go?
Perhaps that’s what moments are meant for—to be lived, then fully and completely released.
This is the paradox before us:
“to engineer Ecstasy without the crave (of addiction to altered states)…
to prompt catharsis without the cringe (of indulgent self-help)…
to create community without the cult (of unreliable leaders and followers)…”
