You can break down the present into smaller and smaller increments, but between the instant of present experience and the instant you identify that instant as “now”, the moment has already passed. It is not longer now. It’s then.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

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• Trying to do your best
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• Setting the tone for your entire day
• Being diligent
• Your mind just as it is
• What Buddhists mean by happiness
• Thinking of yourself as limited
• The best part of all
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• Neither rejecting nor accepting
• Importance of the motivation
• Recognizing the inherent potential of your mind
• Essentially good
• An experience of absolute well-being
• The need to look at the mind
• Never disturbed
• Becoming aware
• Experiencing the unlimited nature of the mind