This Happy Moment is Enough
Unfortunately, or fortunately, this is all there is.
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.” — Seneca
You forget how rich the present moment is because life keeps calling you forward. We spend our days preoccupied- always moving, always thinking, always trying to get somewhere. There’s work to finish, emails to answer, groceries to buy, deadlines to meet, and diets to follow. We tell ourselves we’ll reflect on our blessings later, we’ll notice beauty later. We don’t even think much of peaceful and joyful moments when they come. That “later” becomes a moving goal post- or it never happens. And the moment we finally reach it, the mind tries to busy itself with something else. Locked in that groove, we forget to look- really look- at what’s right here.
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