The Gift of This Moment

What can anyone give you greater than now?

Right now, your hands are warm or cold. Your breath moves at its own pace. Someone you love is alive somewhere on this earth. These facts need no improvement, no addition, no waiting. Attention is simply noticing what is already here: the specific weight of your body in this chair, the exact quality of light on whatever surface is before you. Not someday. This morning. This is the only moment you can actually inhabit.