Today's Quote

[santa7]

Your Daily Quotation:
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
-- Helen Keller

[stevensm4]

Or you can just open the door yourself.  You know? Create your own opportunities.

[Jsnugs]

Does this mean we stay sad for too long I always been a cry baby.

[linderlizzie]

Living in the present is preferable to any other mode of life.

Living in the present is key to nurturing a life free from worries. (From Charlotte Joko Beck) Zen practice  teaches us to be in the present and sit with whatever comes, pain or pleasure. A distracted mind is a field where concerns and worries grow easily.

Living in the past allows you to avoid dealing with issues in the present. 

Living in the future is dangerous because it creates so much fear that becomes your present. Start noticing what’s happening around you, without believing your stories and living in the future, and see how life just seems to go better and easier." (From Susie and Otto)

Wow! That was lot of words with not much meaning. Sorry.  But I wrote it by copying things from other sources, just like I wrote term papers in school. 

[ladycasshmere]

We are too busy looking at the past to see what wonderful opportunities are right in front of us.

[mrsmere]

Very good, move forward and stop living in the past.