Desiderata

Go placidly 

amid the noise and the haste, 

and remember 

what peace there may be in silence.

- Max Ehrmann 

Life

How much of your life as you know it

exists within the mind's world?

The world of the remembered past

and the imagined future.

How much of your sense of identity

is based upon memory of past experience?

Who are you in the present,

without reference to the past?

What is life like in the present moment

without reference to the past or the future?

- Leonard Jacobson 

The Simple Truth

The Simple Truth is that there is no life

outside of this moment.

The life which you believe in 

is nothing but an illusion

which you have constructed

in your mind using the power

of thought, memory and imagination.

It is not real.

Nothing outside of this moment is real!

- Leonard Jacobson