Enchantment
Of our inner world
March 11th 2014
So you want to be happy? Learn to cultivate the precious quality of attention. Attention sustains love; it sustains life. Pay attention not just to human beings, but also to the trees and flowers you meet on your way, to dewdrops, butterflies, insects, birds…
And this advice applies equally to your inner life. For within you also there are butterflies fluttering from flower to flower and birds singing in the trees. Sometimes, when you open your window in the morning, you sense invisible presences inside you, like the ones in fairy tales, and it is as if there are shining dewdrops on the flowers and leaves of your soul. Focus your attention on this sensation; do not let it vanish without trying to hold onto it at least for a moment, for it is this sensation that will bring poetry to your day.