Intrigue & Miracles in the Present

It is extremely important to learn to live in the present, we also must learn how to do so happily. Living in the present unhappily is really no better than being miserable due to resentments regarding a time gone by, or fearful and anxious due to the imagining of a time yet to come.
We must learn to be fully present and completely detached at the same time--just like watching a play or a movie unfolding. Being fully present means paying attention to what's happening.
We will succeed in staying in the moment only if we really want to be there. How can we do this???? especially when things are seemingly not going right, when unwanted things occur, or when we are confronted with a present that doesn't seem so desirable.
One way is to try to see everyone we meet and everything that happens to us---even or especially the difficult people and incidents--as special and meaningful. If we do so, we will be much more interested in the unfolding events of our lives. We will be aware of the synchronous miracles which keep us perpetually intriqued and excited by what's happening in front of our eyes. We will be living a sacred and meaningful life rather than a profane and meaningless one. Things are not intrinsically or inherently ordinary and common and we can see clues pop into our awareness like "messages in a bottle."
Swiss psychologist, Dr. Carl Jung called this experience "synchronicity". Synchronicity is the phenonmenon of "meaningful coincidence" and it helps reveal the meaning behind the events of one's life.
Scientist David Bohm said," Everything is connected to everything else. We are not sure how this connectedness works, but there is a certainty, there is a separateness without separateness."
Being interested and aware in the unfolding of our days events, we can take the next step or say the next line without confusion or stress. Acting in the moment is acting without having to think and acting on how things feel.
The method of learning to be happy in the present is an extension of what's called "guru yoga"---of deriving teachings and guidence from everyone we meet and in everything that happens to us. The word "Guru" is sanskrit for one who removes your darkness.
In addition to learning how to stay grounded happily in the present, we also need to sort of float above it. We must learn how to keep up with change. Time never stands still. Being overly attached to what's happening now is guaranteed to bring unhappiness when what's happening now ceases and something new occurs.
We need to be at ease with what might seem to us to be paradoxical or contradictory instructions. In terms of living happily in the present, we have to be grounded and detached at the same time----riveted to the present because of the miracles and teachings that are potentially all around us all the time: but also with a relaxed attitude about the passage of time and the fact that everything is in constant flux.