Seize The Moment, Gently

Seize The Moment, Gently

“The ability to stay in the moment, to investigate it through my own body and mind, was what I most needed to learn at that point in my life. […] To stay within my own experience more fearlessly. I think that’s why I needed to practice Zen, rather than go to graduate school. You cannot write until you know how to inhabit your own experience.”

-Jane Hirshfield

“I suppose I’m affected by Emerson’s “ever-present now,” by the Buddhist practice of being fully present to the moment—living moment to moment—and by the Christian idea of the incarnation, the sensual world that blesses our being daily.”

-Todd Davis (How a Poem Happens)