Anger. Impatience. Shock. Desire. Frustration. You spend your life being  bombarded by emotions. These emotions are often negative and if you act on them, they can derail you. Past karma shapes your experience of the World. You are also constantly creating new karma, and that gives you a golden opportunity. With your reaction to each experience, you create the karma ...

The past is gone and the future is yet to be. You can only be where you are in this moment: this breath, this step, this instant. To worry about anything else is to waste energy. With mindfulness, life’s in the moment. Mindfulness teaches you the skill of paying attention to the present by noticing when your ...

There are moments in life where you wish to press the pause button and live that memory forever and ever. But sadly, you can not. Moments when you freeze because of happiness. That happiness can radiate from anyone and anything, anywhere. The World stops when this happens. Moments where your eyes focus to that special something. Moments where ...

You only get one shot at this life, so make it a good one. Do it for yourself and no one else. Time is a monster that can not be reasoned with. What if you wake up one day, 10 years from now, and everything has blown right by you as if it were 3 minutes … gone ...

We have been running around far too much. It's all right; we've been active, and our action has achieved a lot of good things. But as Aristotle pointed out long ago - and this is one of the good things about Aristotle. He said 'the goal of action is contemplation.' In other words, busy, busy, busy, busy, ...

If you want to live an amazing life, a truly abundant, happy life, make it a priority to live more in the present moment. You do not need fancy cars. You do not need millions of dollars. You do not need things. All you need is within you now. All you need is this very moment, right ...

Stop longing for something better to happen, to have more than you own or to be someone else, somewhere else. There is never a perfect time for you to take action. There is never a perfect time for you to launch that project, to spend time with your family, to write a book, change your ...

It will not last, this moment, me writing this, you reading. Moments gone, that will never come again, even if you waited an eternity. Moments matter. If you understand what powerful moments are made of, you wish to create them. Because the right moment can have extraordinary power. The standout memories hijack your mind. You replay them ...

The more absorbed you are able to become in whatever your current activity might be, the happier you are. When your mind and thereby your attention wanders away from whatever you are doing, you become unhappy. Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people’s happiness. In fact, how often your mind leaves the present and where they tend ...

Life is a series of moments in time means that your entire life will be filled with moments. Some filled with joy and others filled with sadness. As with all moments they all have a beginning and all have an ending. None will last forever, and all will affect you according to your expectations. If you experience ...

Throughout your life, there are moments that fundamentally change you and your perspective. This could involve finding a new viewpoint for World events, your relationship with another Human being, or discovering some hidden truth that unlocks new wisdom. The idea that important events define the meaning, direction, and quality of life is central to the accepted idea of personal development. But ...

Ambedo, a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details. Raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee. Ambedo, briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake. It is a moment, or ...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a book by Eckhart Tolle. The book is intended to be a guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and avoiding thoughts of the past or future. The book uses Buddhism mixed with mysticism traditions to describe a belief system ...

The one thing that seems secure is a truth that is hard to hear in the context of a dominator culture with an obsession with the material World. And that truth is that nothing lasts. Nothing lasts. You know, your enemies will fade. Your friends will fade. Your fortune, your poverty, your disappointments, your dreams - ...