What Does "Being" Mean

When I wrote about "reverence for nature," I wrote about just "being" rather than doing, being like the existing of nature. "Being" means letting our life run its course and accepting people, places, and things, and ourselves, as is rather than trying to be in control all the time. Of course we have to prepare and plan, but then we should relax and know that all will go the way it is supposed to. Think good thoughts and have a good attitude.  Attitude is a state of being as is joyfulness, faithfulness, and being in balance. When we are being, we are in the present moment where we find peace. We are not full of tension and worry. These come when we are thinking about the past and the future. The goal is to be in the present moment rather than "living in the past," or "becoming in the future." In the moment, the qualities of spirit...peace, hope, and love are immediately available and can be expressed in our everyday living because these intangible qualities are ingrained in our being. Who we are. We can also be forgiving, tolerant, and happy now instead of postponing positive and productive living to some vague and indefinite future. By being, we are not wasting time dreaming about the rich life we may live next year, or ten years from now, but it is beginning to to live our best right now, today. Putting our creative energy into the present because of the awareness of the infinite possibilities in each magic moment. In being we have aids in knowing. They are our instinct, intuition, and insight. We all have inborn patterns of behavior that are responsive to certain stimuli. This is our instinct and it happens naturally. We also have intuition. Because of our intuition we are able to quickly understand and interpret situations and people's behavior without using reason. Then, we have insight, which we gain partially by using our intuition. Insight is developed more in some people than in others. It is when we have a feeling, emotion, or thought that helps us know something essential about people, places, or things. We are able to form a clear and deep perception, and, often suddenly, understand a complex situation. These ways of knowing are not based on hard facts or evidence and don't entail our five sense, but are more like a sixth sense. Instinct, intuition, and insight, are available to use in our current state of being, and, along with the accumulation of our experiences, moment to moment, we are not only "being," we have the reality of ourselves.