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We're not going to live forever, but I think we should have the attitude of “Why not?”

—Harry Bartholomew

Taking our focus off of the future and placing it instead on whatever presents itself today adds a richness to each moment that can't be measured or duplicated. Dwelling on our deaths or the ill health that might befall us leaves us no free time to laugh and learn from all the experiences that are presenting themselves. The end will come. Of that we can be sure, but why let thinking about it discolor every minute that remains between now and then?

Most of us have no idea what our real purpose has been in this life, in these bodies. It's quite freeing to give up the need to know why we're here. It's far more fascinating to simply acknowledge that we are here, and the friends and strangers who walk with us are all that matter minute by minute. Figuring out nothing more than this lets us give our total being over to whatever experience has called to us, as though it's all there ever was or ever will be. Nothing appears the same, from the past or the present, when we see it this way.

I have all the time I need to do whatever comes to me today.

—from Keepers of the Wisdom