[burgundia]

Originally Posted by mudra

In each moment we have the potential to be present, or to miss it. If we miss the moment, we never get it back, and when it happened we were essentially dead. Along the journey of evolution, we seemed to picked up the habit of not living in the moment, spending time either in the past, as memories, or in the future, as planning.

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And it is often so hard to focus on the present...it is something that must be learned and then practiced.