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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you really have.

—Eckhart Tolle

As I allow myself to open to the fullness of gratitude, the past and future do fade

away, and I become more alive in the present moment. That’s because gratitude

is, for the most part, about the here and now. While we can be thankful for past

blessings and hope for future ones, when we experience a sense of gratefulness,

we are usually contemplating some present circumstance. We are brought up to

date with ourselves, so to speak. Our focus moves away from all that we or others

did or failed to do in the past, or what we hope for or worry about in the future,

and we find ourselves placed squarely in this precious moment, this experience

that will never happen again.

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