Wednesday Wisdom 2

Do not let the day slip through your fingers

but live it fully now-- this breath, this moment

catapulting you into full awareness.

Time is precious--

minutes disappearing like moments into sand

unless you choose to pay attention.

Since you do not know the number of your days,

treat each as if it is your last.

Be that compassionate with yourself,

that open and loving to others,

that determined to give what is yours to give,

and to let in the energy and wonder of this world.

Experience everything--

writing, relating, eating

doing all the necessary little tasks of life

as if for the first time.

Pushing nothing aside as unimportant.

You have received the same reminders many times before.

This time, take them into your soul.

For if you choose to live this way, 

you will be rich beyond measure,

grateful beyond words

and the day of your death will arrive with no regrets.

-Danna Faulds

(via Tara Brach podcast: Realizing True Well-being, Part 1-- link here)