Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don’t really know where we are standing—a not-merely-conceptual knowing that comes directly fr

“This is it.” Does it influence how you choose to proceed or respond? Is it possible for you to contemplate that in a very real way, this may actually be the best season, the best moment of your life? If that was so, what would it mean for you—right now?

These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change. You can

mindless. The joy of non-doing is that nothing else needs to happen for this moment to be complete. The wisdom in it and the equanimity that comes out of it lie in knowing that something else surely will.

your instrument of being before taking it out on the road, to get a mindful jump on the whole day and thus, potentially and potently, become more capable of recognizing, living inside of, appreciating, and responding to the bloom of each moment.