If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Interpretation
Embracing the present enhances our experience of life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being fully present in our experiences. By surrendering to each moment and allowing ourselves to truly engage with it, we can deepen our connection to life and enjoy a richer, more fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mindfulness, this quote can encourage people to embrace the present.
When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Simplicity, patience, compassion._x000D_ _x000D_ These three are your greatest treasures._x000D_ _x000D_ Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being._x000D_ _x000D_ Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are._x000D_ _x000D_ Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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