If, while writing this, I start to feel that “I just want to get this chapter done so I can move on to the next,” I am doing the same thing.

what we practice will become a habit.

What we are doing here is objectively observing and analyzing the outcome of each attempt. This observation serves only to direct our next effort. It is amazing how everything changes when we use this way of thinking to approach any new activity. For one thing, we become patient with ourselves. We are not in a hurry to get to some predetermined poi

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We need to be more aware of what we are doing, what we are thinking, and what we are intending to accomplish in order to be more in control of what we are experiencing in life.

I hope you already know that the answer is that it is always perfect. It is perfect at being wherever it is and at whatever stage of growth it is in at that

I wanted you to realize that we keep coming back to the same few solutions to all the problems we feel we have, and begin to realize that life isn’t as complicated as we had thought. Changing our experience of life is well within our grasp, but we have to review a few ideas again and again so that everyday life doesn’t steal them away before they b

Experiencing impatience is one of the first symptoms of not being in the present moment, not doing what you are doing, and not staying process-oriented. I feel that staying in the present moment is one of the hardest lessons to learn. We are always dropping out of the “now” and letting our minds lead us around by the nose to who knows where.

“I have a difficult meeting with someone tomorrow and I want to have my thoughts together before I get into the situation.” Fine, then take half an hour to sit down in a chair and do nothing else but go through the meeting in your mind and be there completely, doing only that. In the calmness of that detached moment, when you are not emotional, thi