Wherever You Go, There You Are

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others.

There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being “right.” My passing mood state is far less important to me than her trust. But in that moment, her trust got trampled all the same. Without care and awareness, small-minded feeling states can dominate the moment.