The most important time in your life is NOW. The most important person is the person you are looking at right NOW. The most important thing you can do in your life is what you are doing NOW. The best way to prepare for the future is to be totally present NOW. Forget all your [...]

Aleph by Paolo Coelho

Thou knowest all – I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity. – Oscar Wilde, “The True Knowledge” I’ve been trying all my life to find out what my limits are and have never reached them yet. But then my universe doesn’t [...]

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. – Alan Watts

Zen Stories: the Staff and Shout of the Venerable Ones

What is Zen? 不立文学，教外别传，直指人心，见性成佛。 Not reliant on written word A special transmission separate from the scriptures Direct pointing at one’s mind, seeing one’s nature, becoming the Buddha Fish forget that they live in lakes and rivers; people forget that they live in the magic of the Dao. – Confucius If one engages in self-cultivation with [...]

Smile, breathe and go slowly. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that [...]

Just for Now by Donna Faulds

Just for Now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders. Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it. Just for now, allow a wave of [...]

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. – Thich Nhat Hanh

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde

Practice letting go of thoughts about what’s not here now. Just allow yourself to meld into the perfection of the universe you live in. You don’t need another thing to be happy; it’s all being provided for you right here, right now. Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or [...]