What I do today, becomes who I am tomorrow. Every action I take, every thought I think and the feelings I experience throughout my day are creating both my present and my future. The beautiful part about this is that it is so empowering, I can do so much to influence and create my own life. The scary part is letting myself know how much my life is affected by my own attitudes and actions. Life wants to fulfill me. I block my own experience of life’s radiance by trimming it around the edges, by saying no to that full and serene feeling that I get when I rest in my own spiritual center, when I am present to the here and now, to the magic of the moment.

                                              I value the life that is mine

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

Pema Chodron