When you are present, you are connected to the divine.

The surface meaning is straightforward: when your attention is fully in the current moment, you experience a connection to something greater than yourself. This isn't a belief, but a felt sense.

In the context of modern non-dual teachings, influenced by traditions like Advaita Vedanta, this connection is not to an external deity, but to the underlying consciousness that is your true nature. The ego, with its incessant mental chatter and identification with form, creates the illusion of separation from this divine ground. Presence, as Eckhart Tolle emphasizes, is the state of awareness that transcends the ego. It is the 'is-ness' of being, the unmanifest source from which all manifest forms arise. By anchoring yourself in the Now, you step out of the conceptual mind and its constructs of past and future, and directly perceive the formless, eternal awareness that is the divine. This is the essence of awakening – recognizing that you are not the thinking self, but the awareness in which all thoughts appear.

In your life: Notice when your mind wanders to worries or regrets, and gently bring your attention back to the sensory experience of this very moment – the breath, the sounds around you, the feeling of your body. This simple act is the practice of connecting to the divine.