I’ve learned this moment is as
it is and is as it should be. With all its trials and tribulations it is the
only time we have for certain. What happened yesterday and what may happen
tomorrow can never compare to the intensity of this instant.
As such, we can agonize about what we don’t have and don’t
like or give thanks for what we do have and do like. We
can be grateful for each breath we take, each sound we hear, each color we
see, each caress we receive and each smile we share.
Life is lived in this precise instant, here and now! It is
common to waste too much time feeling sorry for what could have been or
longing for what might be. What we have in this instant right here and now
is what it is and is as it should be.
I am proud to publish this 50th Lunar Letter, the result of a
vision which began four years ago and which I feel is still in its infancy.
Fifty full lunar cycles have inspired me to create and publish a new message
with each new full moon.
Some of you have been with me from the beginning of my
journey and many of you have joined along the way. I have learned much
during these years and I have had the good fortune to share my thoughts with
many of you in so many different ways. From all I have learned something. I
have learned from those I have met on airplanes, from others in faraway
lands and from the participants in my conferences, seminars and workshops.
Today my editor told me, “We are all teachers and we are all disciples.” I
am convinced this is true and I am delighted to have shared with each and
every one of you!
On this journey I have learned there is always something else
to learn. As Socrates so aptly stated, “I only know that I know nothing.”
When we think about t he
knowledge and experience beyond our comprehension, we begin to realize how
little we know regardless of our depth of understanding
in any particular field. What is truly marvelous about this wonderful
world in which we live is we can connect with the knowledge of the world by
simply typing a few words into a computer.
While we live in an era where we can communicate with
virtually anyone anywhere in the world in a heart beat, we often forget our
ability to laugh, share and enjoy magical moments which arise most often
from common everyday incidents rather than from isolated extraordinary
events.
Finally, I have learned we have the ability and the power to
embrace every minute knowing this is the most intense moment of our lives
and it’s gone in an instant… |
