If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

I don’t wish to possess anything so that I may be left free to experience everything.

We spend far too much time working to get through the moment to understand that life is a collection of moments. And if we don’t come to see the confluence of moments as the fabric of life, we will miss life while living the very moments that were supposed to create it.

Have we forgotten how to laugh? If so, we have forgotten how to live. And that is certainly nothing to be laughing about.

Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

Today I felt the first brush of autumn as in these waning days of summer it gently leaned over an expectant horizon. And it is in having lived summer to the fullest that autumn is positioned to fill me to the fullest. And I think that if we would engage all of the differing seasons of our lives in a manner such as this, the appreciation of ‘what was’ would be magnified a hundredfold by the anticipation of ‘what is yet to be.

The finish line is the culmination of a journey. As such, we should never pay it so much attention that the culmination of the journey becomes the whole of the journey at the expense of the journey