PRECIOUS PRESENT

"This is the precious present, regardless of what yesterday was like, regardless of what tomorrow may bring. When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears are open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go. When the hear of your heart opens, you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you – family, friends, acquaintances, or strangers – including those whose characters are less than perfect, just as you character is less than perfect. When you are open to the beauty, mystery, and grandeur of ordinary existence, you “get it” that it always has been beautiful, mysterious, and grand and always will be. – Timothy Ray Miller
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank god I am alive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Gratefulness is the key to a happy life the at we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no mater how much we have, we will not be happy – because we will always want to have something else or something more.
-David Steindl - Rast
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If there is a sin against this life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. - Albert C..

---from the book . . . Learning how to dance in the rain . . .
-BJ Gallagher"