Someone once asked Thich Nhat Hanh about his plans for the future.

Without a moments hesitation, he replied, “It is not of great concern to me how many more years I live. It is, however, of great concern how I live today.”

So often we take for granted this moment which has so graciously been gifted. Our minds are distracted by the noise of the day, while our hearts construct for tomorrow.

In doing so, we miss the beauty of that which is so clearly before us; we miss the opportunity to live our lives in accordance with our deepest wishes.

“In our daily life we eat, we drink, we shake hands,” he writes. “but we are not really there. We are lost in the past, in the future, lost in our worries, our fear. We are not really there. Everything is superficial, everything is like a ghost. To practice mindfulness is to produce your true presence. Your true presence means the presence of your body and your mind together in the here and the now.”

My darlings, our ‘home’ exists within this space here and now. Be mindful to consider it a farther off goal, as in reality – it is available to you through a myriad of means: a softened touch, a leaning in.

Though, we relinquish it all for that which does not exist – either through past unsettledness or deepened sorrow, or tomorrow’s greater regrets.

To be present here, to consider something as innocuous as a ceramic mug warming the hands — or the painted rays that begin our day; my darlings, this is how we truly begin to live.

So, please – won’t you come join me here?

Namaste, my loves ~ in peace. ❤️