There is a vertical dimension to life that relative mind and consciousness, with its flat, linear, future-past orientation, is incipiently blind to. Seen in this light, to be more aware or present-minded in any given moment is to be more alive in, of, as and through that moment. As such, to be 10% mindful in any given moment is to be 10% alive in relation to that moment. To be 20% aware of being in that same moment is to be twice as alive. To be 100% aware in any give moment is to exit the horizontal realm of time and enter the vertical dimension of eternity, here and now.

 

(OOMM Chapter 8 Intro)