Tag: #Now

  • Making Memories

    “These are the days to remember, for they will not last forever.  These are the times to hold onto, but we won’t although we’ll want to.  This is the time . . . ” Billy Joel

  • Daily Spark: Taking Back What Was Lost

    Little Old Souls said, “Sometimes you need to take a step back in order to see where you need to step next.”

  • Joy in the Everyday

    “No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.” CS Lewis, Surprised by Joy

  • Daily Spark: You Are Not an Afterthought

    “No one leaves here alive, so please stop treating yourself as an afterthought,” says the actor Anthony Hopkins.

  • Daily Spark: Slow, Steady Progress

    Mike Dooley said, “I still don’t get why people are so surprised that the turtle beat the rabbit over the long run.  Consistent effort, no matter how small, sparks magic, and rewrites destinies.”

  • Daily Spark: Sleepwalking Through Life

    I want more than simply sleepwalking through my life! Philip Toshio Sudo mirrored my thoughts on this when he said, “We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake.”

  • Your Legacy

    In writing a draft obituary for my mom, at her request, it made me think of writing my own.  What do I most want to be known for?  How many of those things am I progressing today, in the sacred now?

  • Daily Spark: Red Bird

    As I grow more and more aware of the need to experience my life NOW, not in the past, where I have been, not in the future, where I am not yet, but NOW, I have more and more appreciation for the works of poet Mary Oliver.

  • Daily Spark: Right on Time

    I have given a lot of thought to these words by Asha Tyson, when she said, “Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. …

  • Accessible Now!

    Glen Wilhite (a 94-year-old family friend) said, “As I am more in the end of my life, I find that it is not so much about striving and desiring transformation.  I am meditating daily and realizing that all is accessible NOW, not in some future time or place.”