Simplicity

 From a book I'm reading, The Book of Light:

When was the last time you picked a wildflower and just sat looking at it?

Just sat there, looking at a simple flower?

How long has it been since you last did this?

Instead of living in the future and fantasizing about what you are going to do and be, simply pick a flower and sit there looking at it.

Put aside thoughts of the past and future, put aside your plans, ambitions, sorrows, and resentment.

Just remain where you are, gazing at this simple flower.

Put aside all emotional burdens, dilemmas, projections, and deferments.

Put all thoughts aside.

Just stay as you are, gazing at this flower.

How long has it been?

This is the secret to life: finding things that make time stop or finding the time to make things stop, so that you may just observe them.

So that you may simply remain where you are.

So that you may simply be who you are.