Do you falsely identify yourself with the trappings of your mind and all of its mental activity? Here is an insight that will challenge that perspective, offering more freedom in your life.

The present moment is the gateway to wisdom, happiness and vitality. The problem is that our nutty world is sometimes overwhelming. We forget the present moment! How can we remember more often? Here are three simple words you can use in your daily life to reconnect with the treasures of NOW.

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If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?

Sometimes we forget how fleeting life is. There are no guarantees. We might be here until we’re 100 years old, or we might check out in our twenties or thirties. We just don’t know. But most of us tend to trick ourselves into believing that we have all the time in the world. We procrastinate, hesitate and put off the things that are truly important to us.

If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, wou…

Do you sometimes have the feeling that you’re running into the same obstacles over and over again? Many of my conflicts have the same feel to them, like “Hey, I think I’ve been here before,” but I can’t figure out how I wound up in the same place. The situation is different, but the conflict feels the same.

We’re so busy trying to get it all done — and trying to get it all done right — that we sometimes miss life in our hurry to get to the goal.

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Quite often we’re so focused on our goals, fitting in, achieving a perceived level of success, that we miss the important signals in ourselves and life around us. Missing our own target, we hit the target our goals were aimed at only to find ourselves disappointed and empty with the circumstances of our life.

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When the insight hit me last week I happened to be ordering ice cream for my daughter.

There we were, in Spain, by the sea front, enjoying the sun, having fun, buying a chocolate cone and not really looking for or expecting any special insights into life. But sometimes that’s the way it happens. And it did happen.

Earlier in the week I’d been in a similar situation – speaking broken Spanish to a Spaniard who was speaking back to me in very broken English and using body …