This Moment Is Enough

The business of ordinary life is never ending.

Consider how everyone rushes around trying to make the most of this precarious situation.

Of course, there are many things that each of us need to do each day to ensure that we remain clothed and fed and healthy.

But even the luckiest among us get no rest.

Almost no one seems capable of getting off the treadmill.

So much of what we do is motivated by a feeling that we are losing ground or that we haven’t done enough in the first place to be the person we wanted to become.

And there is an unreality to all of this striving.

Where are the results of all of your past efforts now?

Where are your missed opportunities now?

For just this moment…

recognize that this moment…

is enough.

There’s nothing that needs to be added to it to shore up your being in the world.

And then realize that the rest of your life will unfold in a series of moments…

just like this one.