And that’s what authenticity is: it’s a choice to be real.We have that choice every moment of our lives. We canchoose to be real and authentic, or we can choose to beinauthentic and to live a lie.

It’s as if Mindfulness stretches our bandwidth to includeother people in our thoughts, even when we’re busy, andreminds us again and again not to just think of ourselves.

When we’re present our senses are heightened, and we can enjoy so much more of what we’re seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling.

This present moment is the moment that matters the most because you are in it, and, as I said, if you value being alive, then you value the moment you are most alive in, which is right now.

We can begin by practicing Mindfulness every moment of each day, and it will help us stay awake and aware when we even begin to step out of the moment of caring aboutone another.

The truth is that all of the moments of our lives are magical because we are alive in them.

A magical moment reminds us of how magical life canbe, but it doesn’t mean its job is to entertain us, or inebriateus, or exalt us, or make us feel special all of the time. That’sputting the burden onto something outside of ourselves.