The Art of Power

by Thich Nhat Hanh

He didn’t have time to breathe, to look at the moon, or to enjoy his steps. Although he was supposedly the boss, his craving to get ahead was the real boss,

For many of us, the excruciating pain we feel at the death of a beloved one is not entirely because we miss him, but more because we regret that while our beloved was alive, we didn’t have time for him, we didn’t care wholeheartedly for him.

According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, “The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.”

If your mind is full of confusion, anger, and craving, then your mind is not pure, so even if you want to do good things you can’t do them, and even if you want to refrain from doing bad things you cannot.