Living, Moment to Moment

Living, Moment to Moment

It is not the length of life which makes a difference; it is the depth of life. The depth of life is living moment to moment. If your life span is 90 years, you have 90 years to live. So live year by year, month by month, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second, moment by moment, and that will create depth in your 90 years of life.

Remember the Aesop’s fable about the goose that laid golden eggs. A farmer had a goose. The farmer used to collect the eggs laid by the goose, sell it and thus earned his livelihood. One day when the farmer visited the nest, to his surprise he found a golden egg. From that day, the farmer started watching the nest carefully. The goose was laying a golden egg every day. The farmer started collecting and selling the golden eggs and gradually his standard of living rose. One day, he became greedy and felt he should not waste his life by becoming rich slowly. So, he killed the goose to get hold of all the eggs inside the goose. Alas, to his surprise he found it to be empty.

Success is not getting rich at once. It is a day to day, moment to moment progress. Like the farmer in Aesop’s fable, you will only land in difficulties by being impatient.

Om Namah Shivay.