Principle 09
Presence transforms experience.
The quality of your attention determines the quality of your life more than the content of your circumstances.
Two people live the same day. One is absorbed in rehearsing the past and managing the future; the day passes unlived. The other is present — in contact with what is actually happening — and the same day is vivid, workable, occasionally beautiful. The circumstances were identical; the presence was not.
Presence is not a mystical attainment. It is the trainable capacity to inhabit the moment you are actually in. It changes experience directly, and it changes relationships even faster: to be fully attended to is one of the rarest and most healing things a person can receive.
In practice
- Do one ordinary task a day with complete attention.
- In conversation, listen to understand rather than to reply.
- Use the breath as a recurring return address for attention.
How much of my life have I been absent for?
A question to carry with you
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